sorry this is not possible/available at the moment.
Ok thanks Angelo,
I have managed to isolate the HTML that outputs the autocomplete from the back end so I will see if I can hack this in to the search on the front end locations page somehow.
Ian
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" id="event-form" method="post" action="/eventsmanager/locations/">
<div class="inside event-form-when">
<div id="em-form-recurrence" class="event-form-recurrence event-form-when">
<p class="em-date-range"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="em-location-data" class="em-location-data">
<table class="em-location-data">
<tbody><tr class="em-location-data-name">
<td>
<input id="location-id" name="location_id" type="hidden" value="" size="15">
<span role="status" aria-live="polite" class="ui-helper-hidden-accessible"></span><input id="location-name" type="text" name="location_name" value="" class="ui-autocomplete-input" autocomplete="off">
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div class="inside event-form-details"></div>
</form>