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How would these suggestions and auto complete work exactly? Can you give me some specific examples?
Now Monitoring Query Bugs and Query WishlistThe only way I see it working if there was a wick selector menu to quicksearch pages the user intents to link to. The video properties form uses it, so it may benefit the new visual editor and the search bar.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupAmonimus has gotten the gist of how it might work for TVT, for how it works elsewhere please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete
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Essentially, when writing a word in the editor, say about 2 or 3 characters in, there is an asynchronous query to a dictionary made, it should typically return a list of possible candidate words based on the 2-3 characters already written and present them as choises/possibilities in a drop-down next to the writing cursor.
Edited by skewview AFK with issues, will returnOh ok it’s just an AJAX request looking at all the article names like the videos. Very easy to just bring that over to other places.
Edited by kory Now Monitoring Query Bugs and Query Wishlist

It would be nice if the editor had a suggestion/autocomplete dropdown selection box when writing about examples of a trope or work entries.
I understand that TVT uses little client-side programming so might not, ever, have such an advanced utility but I argue that it would be a highly useful one especially if it would work on a continuously updated dictionary/index. It would certainly hasten editing work and corrections (if markup formatting was part of suggestions/autocomplete).
Since I switched to editing in notepad++ it was very helpful to compile such a dictionary for it by scraping the index pages a while back, however, it is a difficult process because of the lack of pagination and alphabetical pre-sorting aids.