On 10/18/18 3:54 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 2018-10-17 18:30, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 10/17/18 12:02 PM, Daniel wrote: >>> On 17/10/2018 17:11, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > [...] > >>>> I've fixed all this in master. It'll go to 2.3.3, if all is well. >>>> >>>> Riki >>> >>> Thanks! I am looking forward to what filter you opted for. >> >> Just consecutive letters, anywhere in the string. Probably I should >> update it a bit to allow the user to enter regular expressions that >> won't be messed with. So then one could enter e.g. "^sec" to get quickly >> to "section". The question is how exactly to do this. I was thinking to >> do it vi-like, and have "/" activate "regex mode", as we might put it. >> So you'd enter "/^sec" to get quickly to "section". But maybe that's >> overthinking it, and we could just have some character mean: Only search >> at the start of the string. So then maybe "/sec" works, or "^sec". Of >> course, that would fail if someone made a layout whose name actually >> began with such a character. But then maybe they deserve what they get. > > Seems to me that consecutive letters is good enough.
Yes, probably. > Right now one can see what one types from the underlined letters. > Actually, this is already a bit hard to see and I would suggest to do > something less subtle, like using bold font for the highlight rather > than underline. I think that would also look cool. Definitely. Done. > Apart from this, there is actually yet another behavior of the layout > filter that is confusing or "weird" currently. I am not fully sure > what is going on. For example, in plain standard article, > > 1. Select the Standard layout > 2. Filter the layout list for "sub" > > Result: "Subsection" is selected > > Next, > > 1. Select the Part layout > 2. Filter the layout list again for "sub" > > Result: "Subsection*" is selected > > I don't see a reason why this behavior is helpful. Yes, that is weird, but I think it is must be something built into Qt that I have no idea how to change. Riki
