Feature Request: Only suggest words longer than X characters

[Ampa]

Suggestions are only really useful if they save keypresses. I find that suggestions for short words (3 or 4 characters) actually slow down my typing.

Could we have a slider so specify the minimum length of words that should be suggested?

Example… I specify a minimum suggestion length of 5 characters.

I type 'car'.
I don't want suggestions of: cart, card, cars, carp
I do want suggestions of: cargo, carol, carry, carrying etc.

Secondly, could we specify a sort order for the suggestions, with longer words at the top of the list?
Again, useful as this saves the largest number of key strokes.

Thank you for your consideration, and time writing the plugin.

[aubreyz]

Indeed +1 to both suggestions

[tadashi-aikawa]

Hi, @Ampa. Thank you for your FR :)

First of all, Could you tell me your settings by this command?

[Ampa]

Here are my setting. Not sure that I've changed any from default...

{
"version": "6.0.0",
"mobile": false,
"settings": {
"strategy": "english-only",
"matchStrategy": "prefix",
"maxNumberOfSuggestions": 5,
"maxNumberOfWordsAsPhrase": 3,
"minNumberOfCharactersTriggered": 0,
"minNumberOfWordsTriggeredPhrase": 1,
"complementAutomatically": true,
"delayMilliSeconds": 0,
"disableSuggestionsDuringImeOn": false,
"insertAfterCompletion": true,
"firstCharactersDisableSuggestions": ":/^",
"showMatchStrategy": true,
"showIndexingStatus": true,
"descriptionOnSuggestion": "Short",
"selectSuggestionKeys": "Enter",
"additionalCycleThroughSuggestionsKeys": "None",
"openSourceFileKey": "None",
"propagateEsc": false,
"enableCurrentFileComplement": true,
"onlyComplementEnglishOnCurrentFileComplement": false,
"enableCurrentVaultComplement": true,
"includeCurrentVaultPathPrefixPatterns": "",
"excludeCurrentVaultPathPrefixPatterns": "",
"includeCurrentVaultOnlyFilesUnderCurrentDirectory": false,
"enableCustomDictionaryComplement": false,
"customDictionaryPaths": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/master/google-10000-english-no-swears.txt",
"columnDelimiter": "Tab",
"customDictionaryWordRegexPattern": "",
"delimiterToHideSuggestion": "",
"delimiterToDivideSuggestionsForDisplayFromInsertion": "",
"caretLocationSymbolAfterComplement": "",
"displayedTextSuffix": " => ...",
"enableInternalLinkComplement": true,
"suggestInternalLinkWithAlias": true,
"excludeInternalLinkPathPrefixPatterns": "",
"enableFrontMatterComplement": true,
"frontMatterComplementMatchStrategy": "inherit",
"insertCommaAfterFrontMatterCompletion": false,
"showLogAboutPerformanceInConsole": false,
"selectionHistoryTree": null
}
}

[tadashi-aikawa]

Thank you @Ampa !

I wanted to know what features you use.

• Enabled
  • Current file complement
  • Current vault complement
  • Internal link complement
  • Front matter complement
• Disabled
  • Custom dictionary complement

From the above,

I type 'car'.
I don't want suggestions of: cart, card, cars, carp
I do want suggestions of: cargo, carol, carry, carrying etc.

I know that your annoying is about Current file complement or Current vault complement.

(On the other hand, it is not always true that is better about the other three features)

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Could we have a slider so specify the minimum length of words that should be suggested?

Yes. It looks good, so I'll implement it about Current file complement and Current vault complement👍

Secondly, could we specify a sort order for the suggestions, with longer words at the top of the list?

Yes. However, it would be helpful to create another issue :)

[Ampa]

it would be helpful to create another issue :)

Done!

[Glint-Eye]

Suggestions are only really useful if they save keypresses. I find that suggestions for short words (3 or 4 characters) actually slow down my typing.

Could we have a slider so specify the minimum length of words that should be suggested?

Example… I specify a minimum suggestion length of 5 characters.

I type 'car'. I don't want suggestions of: cart, card, cars, carp I do want suggestions of: cargo, carol, carry, carrying etc.

Secondly, could we specify a sort order for the suggestions, with longer words at the top of the list? Again, useful as this saves the largest number of key strokes.

Thank you for your consideration, and time writing the plugin.

I also agree with both suggestions.

[tadashi-aikawa]

@Ampa @aubreyz @Glint-Eye
I have released v7.0.0-beta5 🚀

If you use BRAT, please confirm whether it works as you expected.

[tadashi-aikawa]

Released in v7.0.0 🚀

[Ampa]

Thank you for this addition.

It is working well for me (and I hope for others too!).