Preferences - Pattern for the image information line doesn't autocomplete variables

[lilygthb]

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Computer's operating system

MacOS ARM64

What GPU do you have ?

Other

Ansel version

0.0.0+4084~g771dc81c81

Type of binary

Pre-built packages provided by the Ansel project (.AppImage, .EXE)

What happened?

as the title says:

2026-08-01.at.12.13.47.mp4

Does your problem occur with OpenCL enabled ?

Yes

Does your problem occur with OpenCL disabled ?

I don't know

Previous Ansel version that use to work

No response

Output of ansel -d all

Backtrace

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Upload incriminated image files and XMP developments

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[olliwa-ifi]

why is't a bug?

[lilygthb]

I assumed all field accepting a variable should autocomplete. But the documentation refers to the autocomplete function, since the list is published is defined as outdated (https://ansel.photos/en/doc/variables/)

At the moment I'm copying from the export dialog and pasting in preferences.

It's not a show stopper though

[aurelienpierre]

Auto-completion has never been supported in preferences window.

[Jiyone]

Hi 👋🏻

Thanks for reporting that issue.
From the guide we wrote at the top of bug reports, this is a missing feature, not a bug (see the chapter "what is not a bug").

I convert this report to a discussion.