Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Jeff Young
Huh, appears things are pretty uniform. I wonder where the Scintilla folks came up with their model? Anyway, thanks. I’ll bend the Scintilla engine to our wishes. ;) Cheers, Jeff. > On 30 May 2020, at 17:11, Ian McInerney wrote: > > I am used to autocomplete tools only showing those that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Ian McInerney
I am used to autocomplete tools only showing those that match the current search query. That would also be consistent with the way our hotkey search control matches when typed as well. -Ian On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 4:04 PM Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Definitely leaving only matching items and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Definitely leaving only matching items and removing others. Eeli Kaikkonen On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:50 PM Jeff Young wrote: > One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type, but leave the > menu entries unchanged. > > Another strategy is to remove the un-matched entries (so the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Jon Evans
I am used to, and like better, always placing the best match on top and removing things that don't match at all. This is the behavior of most modern text editors and IDEs I've used. On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:50 AM Jeff Young wrote: > > One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 2020-05-30 10:50 a.m., Jeff Young wrote: One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type, but leave the menu entries unchanged. Another strategy is to remove the un-matched entries (so the selected on is always at the top). [snip]> Which is more common? Which are you used to?

[Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

2020-05-30 Thread Jeff Young
One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type, but leave the menu entries unchanged. Another strategy is to remove the un-matched entries (so the selected on is always at the top). I’m used to CLion, which removes, but the Scintilla Editor’s default is to just highlight. Which is