[development] better autocompletion?

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

John Handelaar wrote:
> Simon Lindsay wrote:
>> John Handelaar wrote:
>>> Bèr Kessels wrote:
>>>> Op dinsdag 18 april 2006 16:33, schreef John Handelaar:
>>>>> How about amending the autocomplete results to (eg)
>>>>>
>>>>>     Title (Author, Date) | nid
>>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK it was Dries who said 'we should never use nids or other 
>>>> database specific keys in our frontend'. 
>>>
>>> You misunderstand.  The nid part is the field value
>>> for autocomplete.
>>
>> But then you have the nid value there in the form, instead of the 
>> text, which sounds ok, until you answer a phone call while entering, 
>> and forget what you were up to, and wonder what 23897 actually stands 
>> for again.
>
> ARGH
>
> Can people who haven't actually developed autocompleting
> forms now *STOP* talking?

That is unnesssarily rude even for my rather relaxed attitude when it 
comes to being rude.

>
> The nid value wouldn't appear in the UI.  

Well, it does for me. The key of the selected item will appear in the UI 
as soon as I have selected an item. At least this is the current 
bahaviour with the ajax module for 4.6. Did this improve in the version 
in CVS?

> But it *MUST*
> be the field value and therefore it must be sent.

To be sent it has to appear in the field or not?

Cheers,
    Gerhard