On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Franco Saliola wrote:

>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Robert Bradshaw
> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Simon King wrote:
>>
>>> Yes!
>>> I could imagine:
>>>  1. FOO.X<TAB> searches for attributes that start with X (current
>>> behaviour)
>>>  2. FOO.X<Shift-TAB> searches for attributes that *contain* X (new
>>> feature)
>

I like this.  I'm a little nervous about adding another tab keycode, since 
supporting Opera makes anything we do with tab obnoxious.  Technical details 
aside, I think it's a great idea.  Maybe I'll submit a bug report to Opera if 
it doesn't work easily.

> +1! For exactly the reasons Robert Bradshaw gave:
>
>> I like this idea much better. I often use tab completion not just to
>> find methods, but because it's faster than typing them out
>> completely. Cluttering foo.ei<tab> with everything that contains ei
>> would be a step backwards.
>
> Franco
>
> --
>
> >
>



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