[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128903] New: Please (PLEASE!) provide global autocomplete

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            Bug ID: 128903
           Summary: Please (PLEASE!) provide global autocomplete
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: david.c.littman at gmail.com

I apologize if this is a duplicate request. I searched and I know I have seen
this enhancement request before but it did not come up.(I recall someone named
Sophie Freud made it or commented on it last year and there was some discussion
around it.)

It would be a tremendous help if new words were added to a global autocomplete
list rather than added only to per-document lists.

I just finished writing a book (Democratic Party Renaissance - Rank and File
Action Manifesto) and at some point will probably do a 2nd ed and perhaps a
follow up volume that addresses some of the topics in depth.

In producing the text I typed hundreds of "new" words (people, places, parties,
laws, etc.) and if I do the 2nd ed or a follow up volume I would obviously like
those words in my autocomplete list.

I have worked at a professional level as an experimental psychologist, a
computer scientist, and other fields in which there are hundreds if not
thousands of lexical items one uses every day. Not to be able to, for example,
write a second paper on the same topic as 6 months ago and use the same
autocomplete list is, to put it mildly, frustrating as all get out.

There is a hack: Make and prepopulate a word list document with just all your
words, open it whenever you're writing a new document, create the new document,
save the new document and the word list document frequently, and it kind of
works ok. But that's a pretty circuitous route to achieve what I am sure many
many people working in lexically rich disciplines would love to have and when I
describe the hack to people who would like to have global autocomplete their
eyes start to roll back after the first sentence. 

At the UX level, perhaps along with the "collect words" and "discard when
closing document" check boxes in the Tools/Autocorrect/Autocorrect Options
panel, add a "add words to global autocomplete list" checkbox.

Then, in options/settings, a choice to "always load global autocomplete list"
or just do it by default and, ideally, put a button on the toolbar "Turn On/Off
Global Autocomplete" scoped to the current document.

By the way I have 8K words in my prepopulated document and have no performance
issues on an old single core 4GB W7 machine so I don't see why the limit
couldn't be bumped up to 20K.

I really like autocomplete, have used e.g., LightKey which is a really nice
piece of commercial software, and apparently W10 has some global autocomplete
functionality. 

But to provide a robust global autocomplete with an open source product as good
as LibreOffice would really advance the cause.

Thanks.

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