&Pamela.Roberts;
2010-10-26
&kde; 4.5

# Automatic Text Completion

You can get &konqueror; to help you enter a path or &URL; into the Location Toolbar by enabling one of the Text Completion features. To do this right click on a clear part of the Location Toolbar text entry box and select Text Completion from the pop up menu. This will let you choose between the following options:

None

  What you get is what you type.

Manual

  When you have typed part of a path or &URL;, pressing &Ctrl;E or &Tab; will complete the entry if it is possible to do so unambiguously.

Automatic

  As you type into the Location Toolbar window &konqueror; will automatically extend what you type to complete one possible path or &URL;, highlighting the characters it has added. Continue typing if that's not what you wanted or press &Enter; to accept it.

Dropdown List

  A drop-down window will appear as you type, showing the possible matches to what you have typed so far. When the path or &URL; that you want appears in the window click on it with the &LMB;. You can also use the Down Arrow or &Tab; and Up Arrow or &Shift;&Tab; keys to select it then press &Enter;.

Short Automatic

  This is like Automatic mode except that it only extends what you have typed as far as the next / symbol in the path or &URL;. Press &Ctrl;E or &Tab; to accept the suggestion, &Enter; when the complete path or &URL; is shown.

Dropdown List & Automatic

  This is a combination of both options described above.

Default

  This item appears at the bottom of the submenu and enables you to switch to the default behaviour Dropdown List.

You should try out these different modes and pick the one that suits you best.

The history of recently visited &URL;s that &konqueror; uses for the Text Completion function can be viewed and edited in the History page of the Sidebar.