I used to have a Droid X2 and when typing a phone number it would directly search on my contacts and offer suggestions. Most of the times I only needed to type 4 numbers and could automatically complete the rest by tapping the suggestions.

Now on Moto X there is no such thing. Is there an option to enable?

 

It doesnt. I cannot type any letters. Are you talking about the phone app, blue icon? Next to message icon?

 

Oh I see. In the search button. No that is not what I had in the Milestone. I mean the MAIN DIAL PAD.

Also this search is horrible. If I have city code + phone number, and I start to type phone number without city code it wont find anything. It doesnt search between numbers. Something that Droid X2 did on the man dial pad.

 

Its called Auto Complete, only available on 4.3 and above. I will wait for the kit kat update and hope it will work as expected.
Its a surprise to me that Cyanogen mod have that and official android only implemented that on 4.3.

@edcooper714 Thank you for the help, but once you see the one I'm talking about working you will see that the current feature is not good enough.