When did Macs get a word-autocomplete?

[yendi]

Sure, Mac has Unix underpinnings, but I'd never noticed this feature before:

In a text editor (I've seen it in Xjournal, TextEdit, and Scriviner), start typing a word, but don't complete it. Hit Command-period, and a menu will pop up with possible words. It's like the unix tab-autocomplete thing, but in a spellcheck context.

Not sure if this is a Snow-Leopard specific feature, or just an old one I stumbled across, but it's damned nice.

Comments

[ckd]

Looks like it's been around but unnoticed for a while. I certainly didn't know about it. (Cmd-. and ESC are treated as semi-synonymous in Mac OS X as far as I can tell.)

ETA: it's even older than I thought.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I heard on the maccast podcast that this is a new feature for Snow Leopard.

I'm waiting on Snow Leopard until they work out all the bugs... there's been some problems with specific hardware connects, especially audio gear hooked up to a mac, and driver issues where some drivers no longer work or don't load properly under Snow Leopard.

Maccast is a free podcast you can find on Itunes, independently done by a fairly knowledgeable technophile who covers all the mac products and related software and gear that works with it.

[yendi]

Excellent! Glad to know it'll work on older machines, too. It's a nifty trick.

[yendi]

Based on CKD's comment above, it's been around pre-SL as well. Other than the loss of Nambu as a Twitter client, I've had no complaints about Snow Leopard so far.

The only user level trouble we've seen

[adric]

is sound in X-Lite 3, and they are working on it, we are assured.

SL (10.6) has been pleasantly uneventful (for users) so far which has just been lovely. 10.6.1 should be out shortly and that should fix most of the known (non-architectural) problems

For ranting about the details of the developer situation, see my journal ;)