Hey @Brian_Roech_Roehrich ,
No, it does not disable formula autofill. The extensions are a “shell” around the Coda editor, expanding a couple of options (like size, layout, showing/hiding the formula hints, etc.), but it is still the Coda editor being used.
To my knowledge, the only way to write code without autofill is using an external text editor and copy and past your code. I think it is easier to just accept and learn to work with some of the quirks of the editor, but that is just my opinion of course.
Greetings,
Joost
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Hey @Lizat! Welcome to the community, self-described newbie and all. 
These are genuinely great observations, and honestly, most of them are already being woven into how we operate going forward. Internally, you could chalk some of this up to the classic “move fast” product mentality, but that excuse wears thin pretty quickly when you’re the one on the receiving end of a surprise change. We hear that.
We’re actively building in new guardrails so the launch, pull, relaunch cycle becomes a thing of the past rather than a recurring theme.
But here’s the part worth celebrating: you’re watching community work exactly as it’s supposed to. The fact that we could hear the friction directly, course correct, and ship a fix? That’s the whole point. Community isn’t a buzzword here. It’s genuinely how the signal from the people using this thing every day gets back to the ones building it.
Keep telling us what’s working and what isn’t. It matters more than you know.
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would suggest at the very least giving us visual feedback that shows something changed in the formula
nothing worse than accidentally changing the formula, hitting enter and not understanding why your formula is broken
Also, how did this get shipped before this feature? In the era of AI coding some of these smaller nice to haves are super amazing low hanging fruit for a new PM / engineer (which, these days, what’s the difference?) which will make us all love you (and give us hope in Coda’s product velocity again!)
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Still find ti confusing and causing more issues than solving… for now. I find myself using the Esc and Enter buttons a ton more because mouse click is not feeling safe.
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I really don’t understand what issue this is solving. This has got to be one of the worst feature rollouts yet.
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@Samuel_Langford it’s something new users report expecting to be able to do bc of excel
It’s probably a fine feature, but it requires:
- an accent animation to warn the user that something has changed
- the ability to scroll the page while in the formula editor
The silly thing about this feature is that now you can select things on the page to bring them into the formula editor if what you want to select happens to be on screen at that very moment.
How often does that actually happen? Almost never.
Big thing for them to do would be:
A) upgrade the formula editor, take notes from Paul’s chrome extension
B) allow scrolling while editing a formula
C) allow clicking, sure, but ensure there’s feedback to ensure a formula doesn’t accidentally get changed
I’d also suggest canvas objects that allow coda formulas to be edited inline directly on the page
but I know raising the ceiling is not on their menu, esp because it’s unclear whether nocode survives the ai explosion
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Yeah, I agree with everything you said. But also, just give us an option to turn it off. Even if I have to dig through my account settings to find it.
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I love how you are now able to click on a specific cell or actually choose a column in one click inside formula.
I still agree to the fact that an option to disable it in case you’re working on something very precise and don’t want to mess up (even though it’s again an option to add to many existing options) would be nice.
Thanks for the update and good luck with the work 
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