We added "speed search" ability (selecting items by typing first letters) into Recent Files and Surround with in #611.
Best regards, Valentin Kipiatkov ----------------------------------------------------------- IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/ "Develop with pleasure" ----------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
