Based on @ztephm comments on https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/issues/11903 we need to enable a field edit feature in the Custom Value dropdowns that enables users to edit the field and not only rewriting it from scratch.

No way to edit the field without rewriting it entirely
Be able to edit the content, like, for example, in the table view.
Don't you think it should start in design, trying to find a way to do it, and then move it to development?
Also I have doubts about if it should be tackled in the response team...
This is a bug, as the component was originally designed to be editable. But summoning @urbanphes so he can shed more light.
cc @saleiva
There is nothing else to design. When you've entered a custom value, you should be able to edit it by editing the content of the input directly. That would be reflected on the dropdown as well.
When you enter a custom value and it is applied, it is not a custom value anymore!. So it is not that easy to edit it.
For the dropdown component clicking on the already written value an filling the text field with it (so you're able to edit it) should work. That said, I can't find a reason for using that component in Geometry edition; you should be able to directly edit the value in the text field itself, right?
@noguerol remember that functionality of autocompleting is very useful when working on categorized maps – which is quite common when creating datasets from scratch
True. Then we can fix the component as I said.
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