Label whispering is too agresive

[marky.smid]

Hi.
Just realised that Kicad whisperer in Global Label Properties is crazy. It’s not possible to make “FAN” label, when there is “Fan_pres” label already in the schematic. The wisperer is way too agressive and changes everything what I write.

1. Make “Fan_pres” global label and place it in the schematic
   2.Try to make “FAN” global label
   3.Don’t anger too much

I can change the name to the same, but this could be problem anyway.

[eelik]

Is this the same problem?

Disable "helpful" autocomplete of Label Properties?

Is there a way to disable the “helpful” autocomplete in things like the “Label:” field of the “Label Properties” dialog box? It’s being way too clever and I’m fighting it more than being helped by it. For example, if I accidentally place a label with “I2c_SDA” and want to change that to “I2C_SDA”, I can’t just retype it as it always autocorrects to the “I2c_SDA”. I have to specifically select the letter “c”, overtype the “C”, and then save it immediately. This is a nuisance. I’d prefer to j…

[marky.smid]

Yeah it is. Didn’t see that one.

[JeffYoung]

And Autocomplete capitalization is too aggressive (#20943) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab.

[buzmeg]

So, is it possible to turn this off until the “fix” gets backported?

[JeffYoung]

No, I don’t believe so.

[Wes]

Omg please let us turn this off it’s driving me insane on a large project. It’s not just that it’s aggressive, it’s also almost always wrong as well. I make a label with LCD_CS then try to add LCD_SCLK LCD_SDA LCD_TE etc and now it decides EVERYTHING that starts with ‘LCD’ must end with ‘D_CS’ and hitting escape cancels the label creation ui rather than the autofill suggestion. This is beyond tedious. I need to go for a walk now.

[Claudio.Lorini]

Agreed, this behavior is particularly counterproductive when you have lots of differential pairs or netclasses with a common root.

[paulvdh]

I have not used V9 yet, but this sounds like a horror story to me. Autocompletion is a great feature but it should always be an optional extra, and direct user input should always overrule whatever the computer suggests. Take for example a programming IDE. Often you get a dropdown box with suggestions when typing some word, but if you ignore that and just keep typing on like nothing happened, the IDE just accepts what you type.

It’s like those annoying internet search engines that do not even search for what you type in, but first replace your search terms with some more common words, and then give search results for those. Quite annoying.