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Unexpected behavior of auto-complete with multiple cursors #246

@pidgeon777

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@pidgeon777

When using a single cursor, the auto-complete function is working as expected. The problem arises when multiple cursors are being used (for example in column mode):

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E.g. it seems that when typing a row of characters like this:

e
e
e
e

the auto-complete function scans for words made by at least four "e" (four is equal to the number of active cursors).

Moreover, in case of a big number of multiple cursors, the auto-complete form is subject to a noticeable flickering, as is it was called in a loop for each of the cursors:

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In my opinion the correct behavior of the auto-completion would be to propose suggestions as if only one cursor was active, even in multi-selection mode. By doing this, flickering would also be avoided in case of a big number of multiple selections.

This is unfortunately a very annoying behavior because auto-completion is almost unusable when recurring to multi-selection, which is used a lot. Do you think this could be classified as bug to be fixed?

Software/OS:

Notepad++ v7.5.9 32bit
3P - Progress Programmers Pal v1.8.3
Windows 10 x64

Thank you

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