No completion for category (regression)

[CendioOssman]

The 2.x overview window seems to have lost the auto-completion for categories, which makes it very difficult to get them right. It doesn't work in the shell extension either so there's no workaround there.

[ederag]

Thanks for the report.
Auto-completion for categories is back now, with limitations described in #303 (comment).

[CendioOssman]

I decided to have another go at upgrading from 1.04, but this seems to still be broken in 2.2.2. Could we reopen? Or was this fixed after the latest release?

[CendioOssman]

For clarity, this is how 1.04 behaves:

In 2.2.2 absolutely nothing happens when I type @ and start filling out a category.

[GeraldJansen]

A comment rather than a definitive answer: AFAIK, there is no such category completion in current master. However, once you have created activity@category combinations a first time, say b232@ThinLine/Consulting and b232@ThinLine/Support, the next time you start typing b232 both category completions will be given in the suggestion list. Also if you type @Thi at the start of the input line, recent matching activies will be shown. I use similar client/project categories and this works quite well for me.

[ederag]

@GeraldJansen exactly, that's why I closed this.
For activities@categories used in the past month, it just fine
(including searching for category alone, just start with @).

Yet it would be really nice to add existing categories (and activities, and tags) to completion search
for new or seldom used items. Reopening.

[CendioOssman]

Great, then we should be on the same page. :)

I think #303 fixes this, but it was ages ago I wrote that. I'll try to have a look at getting it updated for the current master and put up a new PR.

[ederag]

Thanks for helping again !
I don't know if it will be possible to fix that by a minimal change.
If the change is as large as #303,
then it would be good to replace most of the code duplication by exploiting Fact.
(that was the point 5 of this comment).
The testing and review time will probably be similar either way.
I'm almost ready to send a PR about Fact itself (it should be cleaner), so please do not touch it,
but no need to wait for that.

[ederag]

Hopefully fixed with PR #461.
Please provide feedback there.

[ederag]

@CendioOssman That was an automatic close from #461.
It is very clear now that you would also like completion in the cmdline.
v2 did focus cmdline completion on previous activities,
which results in much quicker inputs most of the time.
Completions on a pre-defined list was completely lost, indeed.

Regarding the initial post, there is now a way to enter categories with completion,
by using the separated fields introduced in #461.
The workflow is described here.
So I'm leaving this closed.

If after using it for a while you would still think
that the associated complications are surpassed by the usage gain,
then please file a new issue.

[CendioOssman]

Alright. I'll try it for a while and see how it feels. Thanks for your attention in this.