The custom dictionary feature suddenly stop working

[ooker777]

I open the sandbox vault, delete every note and create dictionary.md with this content:

aaa		nc

I:

• set both dictionary.md and ./dictionary.md as the path,
• turn off all other features and fuzzy match,
• turn on auto-complement
• set min number of triggering characters to 0,
• use prefix match strategy
  

I reload the custom dictionary, then open the console. I create another note and type in nc. There is no suggestion as expected. Why is that?

[tadashi-aikawa]

@ooker777
Could you tell me your settings copied by the Copy plugin settings command?

[ooker777]

{
    "version": "9.0.1",
    "mobile": false,
    "settings": {
        "strategy": "default",
        "cedictPath": "./cedict_ts.u8",
        "matchStrategy": "prefix",
        "fuzzyMatch": false,
        "minFuzzyMatchScore": 0.5,
        "matchingWithoutEmoji": true,
        "treatAccentDiacriticsAsAlphabeticCharacters": false,
        "maxNumberOfSuggestions": 5,
        "maxNumberOfWordsAsPhrase": 3,
        "minNumberOfCharactersTriggered": 0,
        "minNumberOfWordsTriggeredPhrase": 1,
        "complementAutomatically": true,
        "delayMilliSeconds": 0,
        "disableSuggestionsDuringImeOn": false,
        "insertAfterCompletion": true,
        "firstCharactersDisableSuggestions": ":/^",
        "patternsToSuppressTrigger": [
            "^~~~.*",
            "^```.*"
        ],
        "noAutoFocusUntilCycle": false,
        "showMatchStrategy": true,
        "showComplementAutomatically": true,
        "showIndexingStatus": true,
        "descriptionOnSuggestion": "Short",
        "hotkeys": {
            "select": [
                {
                    "modifiers": [],
                    "key": "Enter"
                }
            ],
            "up": [
                {
                    "modifiers": [],
                    "key": "ArrowUp"
                }
            ],
            "down": [
                {
                    "modifiers": [],
                    "key": "ArrowDown"
                }
            ],
            "select 1st": [],
            "select 2nd": [],
            "select 3rd": [],
            "select 4th": [],
            "select 5th": [],
            "select 6th": [],
            "select 7th": [],
            "select 8th": [],
            "select 9th": [],
            "open": [],
            "completion": [],
            "insert as text": []
        },
        "propagateEsc": false,
        "enableCurrentFileComplement": false,
        "currentFileMinNumberOfCharacters": 0,
        "onlyComplementEnglishOnCurrentFileComplement": false,
        "enableCurrentVaultComplement": false,
        "currentVaultMinNumberOfCharacters": 0,
        "includeCurrentVaultPathPrefixPatterns": "",
        "excludeCurrentVaultPathPrefixPatterns": "",
        "includeCurrentVaultOnlyFilesUnderCurrentDirectory": false,
        "enableCustomDictionaryComplement": true,
        "customDictionaryPaths": "dic.md",
        "columnDelimiter": "Tab",
        "customDictionaryWordRegexPattern": "",
        "delimiterToHideSuggestion": "",
        "delimiterToDivideSuggestionsForDisplayFromInsertion": "",
        "caretLocationSymbolAfterComplement": "",
        "displayedTextSuffix": " => ...",
        "enableInternalLinkComplement": false,
        "suggestInternalLinkWithAlias": false,
        "excludeInternalLinkPathPrefixPatterns": "",
        "updateInternalLinksOnSave": true,
        "insertAliasTransformedFromDisplayedInternalLink": {
            "enabled": false,
            "beforeRegExp": "",
            "after": ""
        },
        "frontMatterKeyForExclusionInternalLink": "",
        "enableFrontMatterComplement": false,
        "frontMatterComplementMatchStrategy": "inherit",
        "insertCommaAfterFrontMatterCompletion": false,
        "intelligentSuggestionPrioritization": {
            "enabled": false,
            "historyFilePath": "",
            "maxDaysToKeepHistory": 30,
            "maxNumberOfHistoryToKeep": 0
        },
        "disableOnMobile": false,
        "showLogAboutPerformanceInConsole": false,
        "selectionHistoryTree": {}
    }
}

[tadashi-aikawa]

@ooker777
In your initial post, you wrote the following.

set both dictionary.md and ./dictionary.md as the path,

However, the current setting is as follows.

"customDictionaryPaths": "dic.md",

Therefore, you need to correct the setting.

[ooker777]

no, I used the correct path. I used the sandbox vault so after closing it I had to recreate the problem again 😅. I just didn't use the same filename. Too lazy to write the full word 😅

[tadashi-aikawa]

@ooker777
OK! I could reproduce it and found out the reason.

When I enabled the "Show log about performance in a console" option, a log was output explaining the reason.

[onTrigger] Don't show suggestions because currentToken is less than minNumberTriggered option

It is a specification of the ⚙️ Min number of characters for trigger option.

[ooker777]

thanks. I work it out. This is the second time I got to this problem. I understand the rationale behind this, but apparently the documentation isn't clear enough for me. I make a PR for this, can you check? tadashi-aikawa/docs-obsidian-various-complements-plugin#2

[tadashi-aikawa]

@ooker777
Thank you for the pull request! I will review it.