Sonny Software

Hi,

I found a little bug in the autocomplete feature (I just tried this for the 'Authors' field).

When you have to type in several papers in the same journal volume manually it's a good idea to type in the basic infos (journal name, volume, year etc) for the very first paper and add the other papers by duplicating the first one and just replace authors, title and pages.

When doing so, after duplicating the record I enter the 'Authors' field and press CMD-A to select all authors in order to overwrite them. When I then start typing the name of the new author the autocomplete feature doesn't word. It seems that Bookends doesn't realize that the field is filled with new content.
Autocomplete works fine when you first type the backspace key (what is actually not necessary) rather than just start typing the new name.

Greetings,
Christoph

It's not a bug, that's just the way it works. You have to remove the field contents to trigger the autocomplete function. It has always worked that way.

Jon
Sonny Software

OK...

Well, what MacOS does when I 'select all' (cmd-A) contents of a field and start typing actually IS deleting the old content and replacing it with new one.
Or am I wrong?

Christoph

Autocomplete text is not an OS-level function, the code was written for Bookends. I really have no more to add—that's the way it works.

Jon
Sonny Software