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how do i limit kate's auto-complete to only words already in the document? (media.piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by bad1080@piefed.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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that's how it worked in the last couple distros i tried but now on kubuntu it shows all kinds of (unhelpful) words. i tried disabling "keyword completion" but it did not change this behavior.

thanks for reading!

edit:
here is what it says under “components” in the “about” section:
Kate: 25.08.1
KDE Frameworks: 6.17.0
Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2
Ubuntu 25.10 (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.17.0-14-generic

edit2: i tried upgrading kate to the latest (beta?) version 25.12.2 but now it's not even launching...

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[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

I had a poke through Kate's settings... try going to Editing > Auto Completion and turning off keyword completion?

It says

Keyword completion provides suggestions based on the keywords which exist in the document's language.

which sounds promising. I guess they just added e.g. "English" along with all the programming languages, heh (in a programming language it would autocomplete stuff like "if" and "for").

... I tried turning it off though and it didn't seem to help, which is weird, because it looks like it should.

-- Ylfingr

[–] gheesh@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still on the current LTS Kubuntu (24.04) so I still have the good ol' behavior. Boosting to get an answer before I upgrade 😅

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

for me it says "Version 25.08.1" in the "about" section of kate, what does it say for you? maybe this is something i could fix with downgrading the installed version of kate?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, that's strange. Don't think, it's supposed to work like that, but that does not either seem like behavior that would manifest from a simple bug.

The words in your screenshot do seem to all be in the English dictionary, well, except for "trotz", but that's a German word, so might still be that it somehow takes a dictionary into account.
There might be some dictionary package installed through apt, which might enable that.

Can you check in the Kate settings under Editing→Spellcheck, if any languages show up there? On my system, I actually have none there. Perhaps, if I "fixed" that for me, I might end up with similar completions as you have there...

Also, sidenote: To my knowledge, the T~+~ icon means that it is a word completion (normally based on words in the document), and not a keyword completion or similar.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

"trotz" is the one word i'd want it to auto-complete. the rest also show up in an >empty< document when it type "tro". see: https://imgur.com/Jx27urr

this is what the "spellcheck" section looks like: https://imgur.com/g0agLyX none of the languages under "preferred languages" are ticked. i tried disabling "enabling autodetection of language" but it did not change this behavior.

here is what it says under "components" in the "about" section (i'd think a dictionary would show up here):
Kate: 25.08.1
KDE Frameworks: 6.17.0
Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2
Ubuntu 25.10 (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.17.0-14-generic

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Well, you certainly have more of a dictionary available than I do. For me, it looks like this:

(Which, again, might actually be broken on my distro by excessive minimalism. No idea.)

My About→Components section in Kate says this:

Kate: 25.12.2
KDE Frameworks: 6.23.0
Qt: Using 6.10.1 and built against 6.10.1
NixOS 26.05 (Yarara) (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.19.2

You could try setting the "Default language" in the Spellcheck settings to something else and see, if it still completes the same words, just to try to find out whether these dictionaries are connected.

But yeah, might be worth filing a bug report with the Kubuntu devs. At the very least, it would tell them this behavior may not be wanted by everyone, if it is intentional...