Setting Suggestions: Delay & minimal word length

[chrisgrieser]

Hi, thanks for this wonderful plugin, works like a charm already!

Two reasonable settings that come to my mind are

1. a delay before autocomplete appears.
2. a minimal word length, I think right now it's 3?

[tadashi-aikawa]

Hi, @chrisgrieser!

a minimal word length, I think right now it's 3?

It looks good. I'll implement it.

a delay before autocomplete appears.

Would you tell me why it needs? Because it uses Obsidian EditorSuggest class which doesn't have delay options.

Best regards.

[chrisgrieser]

Setting a slight delay might be useful to prevent the autocompletion suggestion popping up when you are simply slowly typing and don't need them. In that case, they block the view, which is rather distracting.

A delay would keep the aspect of automatic suggestion but only display them when you are thinking for a second

[tadashi-aikawa]

In that case, they block the view, which is rather distracting.

That makes sense!

I don't know whether it is possible or not, but I try it :)

[tadashi-aikawa]

@chrisgrieser
I have implemented this feature. Please confirm what is you expected or not.

[chrisgrieser]

Looks fine to me! :)

[tadashi-aikawa]

Released as v1.2.0 🚀

[tadashi-aikawa]

@chrisgrieser
As I type using the Various Complements plugin, I really understand that it is certainly needed, Delay option. Thanks!!

(Especially on Vim mode)

[chrisgrieser]

Isn't it? :)
I code in Sublime and I indeed noticed that changing the autocomplete delay there by only 500ms made autocomplete much more useful to me, so I kind of had the feeling that this would help in Obsidian, too!