[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 147680] Autotext replacement not willing to ignore space after shortcut

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147680

--- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #8)
> I see no benefit to including the trailing space for the F3 Autotext
> shortcut handling

The benefit is that half the time I type an autotext entry key, I also type a
space, because I'm used to typing a space after every word.

>, and a serious downside of inadvertent replacements by
> allowing any non-exact matching.

But that's the whole point - it's not inadvertant - it's advertant! It is what
the user asked for.

> The AutoText dialog <Ctrl>+F3 shortcut field does not allow/accept space (or
> other whitespace that I tried) for defining a AutoText passage.

Even better - that means that there is even less doubt about what the user
wanted.

Now, if someone were to proposed generalized fuzzy matching - that certainly
has downsides and I'd not make it the default behavior. Here we're talking
about a very specific case where user intent is clear.

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