We added "speed search" ability (selecting items by typing first letters)
into Recent Files and Surround with in #611.

Best regards,
Valentin Kipiatkov
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: [Eap-list] Make the popups consistent


>
> Hi!
>
> I noticed that there are three different kinds of how interaction is
possible
> in the popup windows.
>
> live templates, autocompletion
> Here you can begin to type and the list is narrowed down. This gives the
> fastest access. Mouse and cursor navigation is also possible
>
> recent files
> only mouse and cursor navigation
>
> surround with
> Access by mouse, cursor or by typing in a number
>
> I would like to have all the mentioned popup windows to have the same
behavior
> as the live templates and autocompletion ones. Especially the "surround
with"
> is strange. Here one has to learn the codes to use this efficiently. When
I
> press Ctrl-Alt-T I know with what I want to surround the selection. So
when I
> want to surrond it with a synchronized-block, it would be natural to type
> an "s" after the Ctrl-Alt-T. But now I have to look, which codenumber is
the
> right and type this in. I know there will be some of you saying, "I know
all
> the codes and it's pretty efficient for me". Others will remember those
old
> times where expert codes where used in many applications. I say "Expert
codes
> are evil". A modern app should support what is natural. Thinking "9", when
> surrounding a selection with a surround-block is not natural. The codes
should
> stay an option for those expert-codes-fans.
>
> By saying that all popup windows should have the same bahavior as the live
> templates window, I don't think this change should affect the sorting of
the
> list. For example it would be useless to sort the "recent files"-popup
> alphabetically. But when I type in a "B" here, I could get a list of Files
that
> start with "B" and have the most recent B-file at the top of the list and
the
> least recent at the bottom.
>
> ---
> Greets
>   Robert
>
>
>
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