PieFed[SOLVED] how do i limit kate's auto-complete to only words already in the document?
https://media.piefed.social/posts/N4/t3/N4t3VeyEh8ZfXcq.webp
see “edit3” for the workaround.
that’s how it worked in the last couple distros i tried but now on kubuntu it shows all kinds of (unhelpful) words. i tried disabling “keyword completion” but it did not change this behavior.
thanks for reading!
edit:
here is what it says under “components” in the “about” section:
Kate: 25.08.1
KDE Frameworks: 6.17.0
Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2
Ubuntu 25.10 (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.17.0-14-generic
edit2: i tried upgrading kate to the latest (beta?) version 25.12.2 but now it’s not even launching…
edit3: use this as a temporary work-around: add
kate: default-dictionary "";
somewhere to your .txt save and reopen (thanks to u/ang-p on reddit). this limits the suggestions to only stuff actually in the document. this would imply there is indeed a dictionary somewhere hooking into the whole thing and messing it up… or an internal setting not working as intended
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Still on the current LTS Kubuntu (24.04) so I still have the good ol’ behavior. Boosting to get an answer before I upgrade 😅
it seems to be an issue with a dictionary after all. i added “edit3” to my OP for a workaround.
for me it says “Version 25.08.1” in the “about” section of kate, what does it say for you? maybe this is something i could fix with downgrading the installed version of kate?
I had a poke through Kate’s settings… try going to Editing > Auto Completion and turning off keyword completion?
It says
which sounds promising. I guess they just added e.g. “English” along with all the programming languages, heh (in a programming language it would autocomplete stuff like “if” and “for").
… I tried turning it off though and it didn’t seem to help, which is weird, because it looks like it should.
– Ylfingr
it seems to be an issue with a dictionary after all. i added “edit3” to my OP for a workaround.
Hmm, that’s strange. Don’t think, it’s supposed to work like that, but that does not either seem like behavior that would manifest from a simple bug.
The words in your screenshot do seem to all be in the English dictionary, well, except for “trotz”, but that’s a German word, so might still be that it somehow takes a dictionary into account.
There might be some dictionary package installed through
apt, which might enable that.Can you check in the Kate settings under Editing→Spellcheck, if any languages show up there? On my system, I actually have none there. Perhaps, if I “fixed” that for me, I might end up with similar completions as you have there…
Also, sidenote: To my knowledge, the T+ icon means that it is a word completion (normally based on words in the document), and not a keyword completion or similar.
“trotz” is the one word i’d want it to auto-complete. the rest also show up in an >empty< document when it type “tro”. see: https://imgur.com/Jx27urr
this is what the “spellcheck” section looks like: https://imgur.com/g0agLyX none of the languages under “preferred languages” are ticked. i tried disabling “enabling autodetection of language” but it did not change this behavior.
here is what it says under “components” in the “about” section (i’d think a dictionary would show up here):
Kate: 25.08.1
KDE Frameworks: 6.17.0
Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2
Ubuntu 25.10 (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.17.0-14-generic
Well, you certainly have more of a dictionary available than I do. For me, it looks like this:
(Which, again, might actually be broken on my distro by excessive minimalism. No idea.)
My About→Components section in Kate says this:
You could try setting the “Default language” in the Spellcheck settings to something else and see, if it still completes the same words, just to try to find out whether these dictionaries are connected.
But yeah, might be worth filing a bug report with the Kubuntu devs. At the very least, it would tell them this behavior may not be wanted by everyone, if it is intentional…
it seems to be an issue with a dictionary after all. i added “edit3” to my OP for a workaround.