Re: Better "select by name" behavior

On 31 January 2013 18:31, Dennis Nezic <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, currently (rox-2.10), when you MINI_SELECT_BY_NAME (. command), it
> defaults to the "*." glob -- i.e. it assumes we want to select by a
> certain file extension. I found that I usually wasn't searching by file
> extension, but rather by keywords within filenames, and often found
> myself having to backspace. So, I think it would be better to not have
> that initial default glob.
>
> Also, when matches were found, although they were selected, the window
> wouldn't scroll to them (if they weren't visible -- ie. in a folder
> with many files.) I think the window should jump to the first match,
> much like the current MINI_PATH does. This little patch here does
> something like that, although I'm not sure if it's the best way :P --
> it will move the window and the non-highlighted-selected entry down one
> each time a new glob is matched.

Well, I applied the bit about showing the selected match (except that
I changed it so that it doesn't keep moving forward if the current
item matches).

Don't think the first change is worth it. Even if you want "*foo",
it's still easier to hit backspace than to type "*".

Thanks,


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