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 That's the behavior of auto-complete in MS Access that causes extra quote marks when cutting and pasting too. Spend some hours hunting those down. The requirement is to be able to turn it on and off. It is also useful if the auto-completes are customizable. But they aren't useless. Many code editors do nice things like keeping up with all of the class methods and offering them as a select as one types. You do point out the right question: is it interfering with the flow of an expert because it is designed to help an occasional user? All the same issues came up when discussing SGML editors. Over time it was observed that experts eventually moved back to ASCII editors and on demand parsing for document types they knew well (they are experts) and back to the context-based editors (even had names like InContext, or Context) for types that they only use occasionally. Dedicated application editors are useful when the content types themselves require more than text knowledge; they require look and feel: the dominant characteristics of WYSIWYG. Again, graphics, real time animation, etc. Even then, highly associative data types still need more context checking (interference, race conditions, etc.), or the document type is too deep and broad for one to become an expert (eg, MIL-D-28001). And that is why subset DTDs and DTD-driven editors became useful when organizing an enterprise system: each authoring role created their own documents and these are later merged automatically. The most requested features for report systems is that the interface exactly match the typical entry pattern for a standard report. The rub is, that susses out to 'local standard' and one is right back to the high costs of local customization for otherwise shrinkwrap systems. No free lunch. len 
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