feature request: autocomplete expansion

aaronbcowan

This is admittedly a small issue, but I would love to see autocomplete in item fields expanded to include ANY part of the query options, not just the first letters.

For example, if editing the "Publication" field, one might have a whole library of articles from New York newspapers all starting with "New York" in the name (e.g., NY Times, NY Tribune, NY Herald, NY Dispatch, and so on...) but currently users can't just type "Dispatch" and have autocomplete jump to that paper - it only recognizes letter-for-letter searches from the beginning.

This is also a problem with tags.

It seems two other users have inquired about this option relatively recently. Any possibility of seeing this in a near-future update?

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/95119/feature-request-v6-fuzzy-autocomplete-when-adding-tags#latest

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/92284/feature-request-tag-autocomplete-not-necessarily-matching-first-letter-typed#latest

aaronbcowan

*watches tumbleweeds blow by as the crickets chirp*

Quinnium

Also wondering this. Tag taxonomies are more difficult to maintain when you have to remember the first letter of each tag. This seems like a small feature that could result in a big quality of life improvement.

This request was also mentioned in this discussion, in addition the others linked above: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/102962/feature-request-autocomplete-expansion#latest)