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    Bernard
    last edited by Mar 31, 2022, 12:42 PM

    With the latest version, whilst typing, a box flashes below the typed text. There is a gif of this phenomena at GIFYU at image/SpC6F I would provide the link however whenever I attempt Submit a box appears stating this post is flagged as spam and I am assuming it is the presence of the link which causes this. - Best

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      PeterJones @Bernard
      last edited by Mar 31, 2022, 1:00 PM

      @bernard ,

      FYI: To imbed an external image in the forum, you can use the markdown ![](https://s7.gifyu.com/images/Flashing-Box-Whilst-Typing.gif):

      That “flashing box” is normally the auto-complete box. But with no other words in the active file, I am not sure why it would be triggered word completion – because word completion requires previous words, and at abc or abcde where it triggered, there weren’t any previous words.

      Here is that auto-complete box, trying to word-autocomplete on a word that is previously in my document: f51d14d3-0485-4523-b0da-16ebbfc59be7-image.png

      And based on the lack of syntax highlighting, I am assuming no lexer is enabled, so it shouldn’t be trying function completion. Maybe you have a plugin that is trying to add extra auto-completion. Sharing your ?-menu’s Debug Info would be helpful.

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        Lycan Thrope @PeterJones
        last edited by Lycan Thrope Mar 31, 2022, 7:37 PM Mar 31, 2022, 7:36 PM

        @peterjones ,
        Just an FYI, I noticed that strange behavior when developing my Autocomplete when I had some error in it. Nothing would show, but the box would come up and go down…like it was trying to figure out my list. Once I got all the stuff properly setup, it worked just fine. That’s just one possible explanation, but that also makes it user error. :)

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          mpheath @Bernard
          last edited by Apr 1, 2022, 6:45 AM

          @bernard

          This seems like the same issue reported with Notepad++ v7.9.2 (64-bit):

          #9433 Autocomplete makes notepad++ unable to keep up with typing.

          an empty (context menu?) box flash for a second

          I have submitted a Pull Request to fix:

          #11460 Fix autocomplete may show empty list .

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