Autocompletion in the 'search by tag' field?

[nodiscc]

Reported at sebsauvage#104. The 'search by tag' field has no autocompletion feature (the 'tags' field in the "Edit link" dialog still has it)

The proposed fix doesn't merge anymore (it relies on an old Shaarli version that still had jQuery on the main page). We may not want to re-add jQuery so another solution would be welcome.

Is this really wanted, or should we mark this as wontfix?

[ArthurHoaro]

In my opinion, the 'search by tag' field is useless, and not worth readding jQuery + jQueryUI on every pages :

• Tag filtering is done by clicking on a tag from the link list or the tag cloud.
• The search field can also be used if poeple are looking for something ; it searches through tags.

I believe in earlier versions you couldn't search tags through the regular search field, and that's why it exists. Anyway, it's a wontfix for me.

[nodiscc]

I for one often use the "search by tag" field because:

• I have a lot of tags
• Sometimes i know exactly what tag I'm looking for and
  • The tag is not directly available on the link list page I'm on.
  • I can't be bothered to open the tag cloud, search for the tag, click on it.

So while it's not high priority, I see 4 possible solutions

• wontfix
• Add a live filtering field to the tag cloud page
• reintroduce jQuery on linklist pages (it's cached most of the time anyway) and re-add autocompletion, possibly optional
• Best solution IMHO: use another lightweight autocompletion lib and get rid of jQuery where it's still used (changetag, picwall, editlink)

[ArthurHoaro]

Do we just use jQuery for autocompletion? If so, your solution is probably the best thing to do, yes.

[nodiscc]

@ArthurHoaro It's also used for lazy loading in the picwall. But again, specialized libs exist for that. Eg blazy which is used by MinigalNano by @sebsauvage

[nodiscc]

https://github.com/aehlke/tag-it is another autocompletino lib (but still relies on Jquery UI)

[ArthurHoaro]

I took a look at it yesterday, and I didn't find a single proper lib which doesn't rely on jQuery (or angular and cie) and supports multiple tags. :(

[Marsup]

What about http://leaverou.github.io/awesomplete/ ?