On 2009 May 26, at 21:11, Tim Mansour wrote:
Not sure why that would preclude auto-completion.
Actually, it doesn't, and now that I've experimented with your suggestion, I think I'm going to go with it.
I'd still like the most popular choices to be readily available at the top of the list, tho, so I haven't given up on my original quest, only moved on to treating it as a supplement to auto-completion.
In any case (and thinking out loud) you mentioned trying to find a solution with "soft" and "hard" spaces, by which I'm assuming space and fixed space: have you tried changing the sort language to Unicode, which would recognise these? Although that would also make it case sensitive.
Yeah, it's the case sensitivity that stopped me from going down that route.
This approach was really nothing more than a kludge, anyway, so I don't mourn it if it doesn't work.
What I'd REALLY like is the ability to SHOW only 1 field and SORT on a different (hidden) one. I originally encountered the desire to do this when I came up with a list of street-type abbreviations and wanted to show only the abbreviation but have the dozen most common ones (St., Rd., Dr., Ave., etc.) appear at the top of the list and have their spelled-out versions next to them. That would have required a value list that used THREE fields (the pickable abbreviation, the explanatory long form, and the hidden sorter), and I've largely given up on being able to fake it.
