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May 6, 2020

Autocomplete

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Autocomplete

Autocomplete is the feature when an application predicts the complete word, after just typing some prefix of the word. You must have used autocomplete feature a lot in your life in many area like:

  • Search engines, Google search engine suggests to you an autocomplete feature when you type some text in the search bar, usually sorted by most trends.
  • Emails, as you start writing some prefix of the Email address you will get a list of suggestions.
  • Social media, like facebook, linkedin, instagram…
  • In source code editors, actually I am using Atom right now and I have used autocomplete for at least 10 times just in the first small part of this article.
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