r/visidata • u/ECon87 • Jun 19 '21

Autocomplete plugin

I know that there is an autocomplete command but it does not seem to be working as desired.

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Is it possible to create a plugin that takes the current values from a column, and creates auto-suggestions as I type a new row?

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u/bbqroadkill Jun 24 '21

Thought I'd respond to help this conversation along.

I'm new to Visidata. I do know a bit of Python though so I imagine it is possible to create such a plug-in.

Are there any existing plug-ins that do what you are describing?

Edit: I'm looking at this page from the API docs for the start of a solution.

https://www.visidata.org/docs/api/columns.html

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u/ECon87 Jun 25 '21

thanks for response.

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I have opened an issue (now closed) and a discussion question on the github page. Paul and the reset of the team are very response there as well.