Find behaviour

I keep meaning to ask this, I don't think I've seen it mentioned before.

If you type a String into the new search whotsit on the toolbar you get
a list of a full and partial matches.  If you double click on the full
match item then a new browser is opened on that item.  If you double
click on any of the partial matches it just enters that item in the text
field and you have to press enter or click on the arrow.

If you have selected a partial match by double clicking, indicating that
this is the item you want, it seems non-intuitive that it also needs
another action to open a browser on the selection.

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Ian,

> If you type a String into the new search whotsit on the toolbar you
> get a list of a full and partial matches.  If you double click on the
> full match item then a new browser is opened on that item.  If you
> double click on any of the partial matches it just enters that item
> in the text field and you have to press enter or click on the arrow.
>
> If you have selected a partial match by double clicking, indicating
> that this is the item you want, it seems non-intuitive that it also
> needs another action to open a browser on the selection.

I agree it's a bit unintuitive but it is intended to be useful
behaviour. This way you can build up a search (say for a method) by
typing a partial match of the class name, hitting enter to complete it
and then add >> and a partial selector match.

Best regards,

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Andy Bower
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Andy,

> I agree it's a bit unintuitive but it is intended to be useful
> behaviour. This way you can build up a search (say for a method) by
> typing a partial match of the class name, hitting enter to complete it
> and then add >> and a partial selector match.

Thanks for the explanation.  I think my preference would be to use the
tab key for "complete and leave cursor in edit field" (which is what it
does at the moment) and use the enter key or double click  for "complete
and continue".  The current method just seems different to other apps
with autocompletion that I use (Thunderbird and MS Money for example), I
expect I'll get used to it though :-).

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