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Re: Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

 

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 <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Definitely leaving only matching items and removing others.
> 
> Eeli Kaikkonen
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:50 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> 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).
> 
> I’m used to CLion, which removes, but the Scintilla Editor’s default is to just highlight.
> 
> Which is more common?  Which are you used to?  Which do you like better?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
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