Word library manager: manage word libraries.
Shorthand library manager: manager shorthand libraries
Set Active Libraries: select active libraries that will be used for autocompletion and autoexpansion.
Run IntelliComplete and it will stay resident in memory. You will see a toolbar docked at the right side of the screen and a red desktop light icon in the system tray. You can get the main menu by right clicking on the tray icon or clicking the first button on the toolbar. All the functions can be accessed by the main menu or the toolbar buttons. Open Windows Notepad and type some words. You will see matching words displayed in a prompt box while you are typing.
Select "options..." from the main menu to activate the options dialog. Go to <prompt> page. Make sure the radio button option "default prompt mode" is "Word/Phrase" instead of "Shorthand". Also make sure the check box option "Prompt Word/Phrase" right below is turned on.
Open a word processor, e.g., notepad. Type the beginning letters of a word (Let's call it 'prefix'). You will see words matching the prefix displayed in the prompt box. Press Up/Down Arrow to change selection. Press CTRL to autocomplete the selected entry. Press Down Arrow + n to directly autocomplete an entry by its index. 'n' is the entry index. The indexes are displayed on the left on each entry. The index can be 0~9 and a~z.
Select "options..." from the main menu to activate the options dialog. Go to <prompt> page. Make sure the radio button option "default prompt mode" is "Shorthand" instead of "Word/Phrase". Also make sure the checkbox option "Prompt Shorthand" right below is turned on.
Open a word processor like notepad. Type 'afaik' character by character. You will see several matching shorthands prompted. When you have typed 'afaik' in full, you will see only one entry prompted which is 'as far as I know'. Press Up/Down Arrow to change selection if necessary. Press CTRL to expand the selected shorthand. Press Down Arrow + n to directly expand an entry by its index.
There may be both matching words/phrases and shorthands for the same prefix. For example, both the word 'affair' and the shorthand 'afaik (as far as I know)' matches the prefix 'af'. You can press CTRL+ALT+N to switch between word/phrase mode and shorthand mode. You can set the default prompt mode or enable/disable each mode in the prompt page of the options dialog.
IntelliComplete uses word libraries for word/phrase autocompletion and shorthand libraries for auto-expansion. Both language libraries and professional libraries are word libraries. Language libraries, professional libraries and shorthand libraries are stored under 'langlib', 'proflib' and 'shlib' directories, respectively. All the functions related with library management are located under "Library Management" in the main menu. The frequently used functions are listed below,
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Word library manager: manage word libraries. |
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Shorthand library manager: manager shorthand libraries |
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Set Active Libraries: select active libraries that will be used for autocompletion and autoexpansion. |
Library Creation and Importation
The functions involved with library creation and importation are located under 'import' of the main menu. You can create and import libraries from word/phrase/shorthand lists, plain-text documents, source code, etc.
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Refer to the Word Autocompletion and Shorthand Expansion section in help
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The prompt box is docked at the bottom of the screen by default. Right click on the prompt box to access its popup menu. You can change the style of the prompt box by its popup menu or the small buttons at the right end. You can make the prompt box horizontal or vertical, make it floating or docked at any side of the screen, change its font and prompting position. Click 'D' button or press CTRL+ALT+H to switch the prompt box between docking and floating mode.
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Prompt Style
Select "hotkeys..." from the main menu to define all the hotkeys used in IntelliComplete. Play a little bit with different settings to find the best hotkeys for your particular situation. In particular, the option "select by digits" and "select by function keys" may be convenient or annoying depending on what kind of documents you deal with.
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Defining hotkeys
Pause the mouse on the toolbar buttons to view the tool tips. Play with the buttons to see what they do. Double click on the toolbar edges to customize it, i.e., to add or remove buttons. Drag the edges to move the toolbar. Click the 'hide' button to hide the toolbar. Press CTRL+ALT+T to show/hide it. Right click on the toolbar and you will see a popup menu. With the popup menu, you can set the toolbar to be vertical or horizontal. You can make it floating or docking at any side of the screen.
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Tool Bar
Multiple Clipboard Manager extends the function of basic Windows clipboard by maintaining a long list of history clipboard. It also saves a clipboard history file so that text that has been copied will never be lost. Click the Multiple Clipboard Manager toolbar button to activate the Multiple Clipboard Manager. Click the paste button to paste the selected clipboard entry into the window that was last active before Multiple Clipboard Manager is activated. Press CTRL+ALT+V to activate Multiple Clipboard Manager by hotkey.
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Multiple Clipboard Manager
URL alias makes you able to use short alias to access long URL (file/folder path, command or web address, etc). Click the "Alias Definitions" button on the toolbar or select "tools->alias definitions..." from the main menu to define aliases. Click the "quick run" button on the toolbar to activate the quick-run dialog. Type an alias, press enter and the corresponding full URL will be opened. You can create an alias in the quick-run dialog or in the alias definitions dialog. Click "Alias Definitions" button on the toolbar to activate the alias definitions dialog. You can type an alias in any window and press the expand-alias hotkey (TAB) to expand the alias into the full URL.
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Making Use of Aliases
Type a built-in command in the quick-run dialog and press enter to execute it. Built-in commands give you quick-access to frequent tasks. Check the list of built-in commands in the chapter below.
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Built-in Commands
Open notepad, select a piece of text and press CTRL+ALT+M to activate the embedded editing menu. Select one of the menu items to carry out an operation on the selected text.
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Embedded Editing
Click the quick-run toolbar button or press CTRL+ALT+U to activate the quick-run dialog. Type a full URL or a predefined alias and press ok to open it. Aliases can be created on the fly in quick-run dialog.
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Quick-run dialog
Click the all drives toolbar button to activate the mini file browser. Left click on an folder to switch into the sub-directory. Right click on a file or folder to open it.