> > > By the way, are we sure we want the "search as you go" functionality > currently in the citation dialog? There is notable slowness on my > machine (Athlon 2400+, 1GB), as I've got 500+ BibTeX keys in the dialog > and they all have to be searched on every keypress. > > > In svn, the search is restrained to the already searched list so only > the first keypress search through the full list. Maybe this has > changed with you patch. No, I didn't change that. I did mis-state this, though. So consider: Suppose I do a case-insensitive search and type an "s". Then the search will narrow the list down to everything that contains "s" somewhere in the record. That is not likely to narrow it down very much. (Remember that it doesn't just search the keys. Maybe it should.) So now I type an "a". That narrows it down to everything that contains "sa". Again, little progress. Now I type "m". That will weed out a few things, but possibly not very many, especially because I have a lot of annote, abstract, and review fields in the database. (Note here that the current BibTeX parser loads all fields and searches all fields.) So there are going to be three pretty much full DB searches, and the fourth one will likely be quite large as well. Of course, I've chosen a bad case. If I'd type "fre", I'd have made more progress. But still it is slow.
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