Re: keyboard-search question/feature-request

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:28:03 +0200
Atman Sense <mattenklicker@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> is it possible to toggle the fast keyboard search (the small dialog
> if you press a key) case-insensitive?
> Or the tab completion on the command line?
Neither are possible now, and in principle both could be implemented. However 
...

In the former case (gtk docs refer to it as "type-ahead search" or something 
like that) it's no big deal to add some code, but the interface would be 
clunky. Presumably you don't want to change a config setting each time you 
decide to be case-sensitive or not. Otherwise, using key-modifier(s) risks 
interference by keybindings of e2 or anything else that happens to have 
precedence. Hence a scan would be unreliable and IMO, therefore unusable.

In the latter case, the library function used to match names does not support 
case-insensitive searching, and I don't see how it could be made to work 
without replacing the lib code - which is extremely unlikely.

Regards
Tom


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