> No one would design an autocomplete for written language
Er... that happens all the time: various word processors, text messaging, etc. Even Google's autocomplete (which is a rare example of autocomplete being really good) is essentially this.
Ya, I should have written it differently. These aren’t the same things, really. One is about discoverability and the other is about handling input method deficiency. I remember auto completion being really great when using T9 to text on old Nokia handsets, but not because I didn’t know what words I could write.
The right word for that would be code completion or more specific brandings of intellisense, which is completely different from things like T9.
Er... that happens all the time: various word processors, text messaging, etc. Even Google's autocomplete (which is a rare example of autocomplete being really good) is essentially this.