Re: Feature request "Fuzzybox" in user.strips

Hi

Many thanks. 

For document searching the new filter system is great.

In a user strip when making a selection from the existing entries in a 
combobox I still think the WindowsTM default behavior could be improved. I 
would like to use the text portion of the combobox to incrementally filter 
the popup portion before making a selection - and leave the mouse 
untouched. Preferably using a "contains" or "fuzzy" match (See 
https://github.com/dyve/jquery-autocomplete)

It is not often that web widgets are more usable that the stock WindowsTM 
controls, but appears to be true for the process of selecting in a combobox.

Kind Regards Gavin Holt 


On Tuesday, 10 August 2021 at 07:06:18 UTC+1 Neil Hodgson wrote:

> Gavin Holt:
>
> > Not sure if this would be coded as a revision of the combobox, an 
> alternative control or a different type of "strip”.
>
> There’d have to be some more change codes and/or arguments for the up/down 
> keys along with modifiers. Allowing override of Tab gets in the way of the 
> normal focus movement on Tab/Shift+Tab.
>
> > I did see discussion about "filtered View" for Scintilla, and would 
> suggest offering several filter methods ("begins with","contains","fzf") 
> from the outset - it would be mighty powerful! The fzf optional behavior to 
> "keep lines in order" may also be helpful when selecting lines from a file.
>
> The in-progress filter strip supports regular expressions like the find 
> and replace strips so you can search for starts-with and ends-with using 
> the start and end word matchers “\<“ and “\>”.
>
> Fuzzy finding seems to imply reordering as well as selection. Filtering in 
> Scintilla is just hiding lines and it would be more difficult to reorder 
> the lines. The text could be copied and just the best matches displayed but 
> that’s a heavier operation, not just a restricted view.
>
> Neil
>
>

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