On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:40 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
Hi,
The find as you type search functionality in the GtkTreeView which came
in GTK 2.6 is really cool in my opinion, because it saves a lot of
typing or scrolling.
When I was editing nautilus with gedit I noticed I still had to type a
lot because a lot of files have the following format nautilus-<some
name>.[ch]
I implemented a patch such that you need even less typing. If there are
no other viable options for the characters you typed it will try to
complete the text as far as possible. E.g. if you have a directory which
contains a lot of files with start with nautilus- the search entry will
complete automatically to nautilus- as soon as you type an n and if ther
e are no other files which start with an n.
IMHO, it would be much more useful if typeahead search was always
based on substring match, like the way mozilla searches in web
pages/links. This would more useful because sometimes you want a file,
but you have no idea how it starts, and you only know a word in the
middle.