GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164040
Up/down arrow keys when doing typeahead
Last modified: 2014-03-27 03:02:35 UTC
When doing typeahead searching, hitting the up/down arrow keys lets you cycle between the files that start with the prefix you typed. This is useful when you have both files and folders starting with the prefix; "foo" in this example: bar/ foo/ foofum/ fooqux/ gnoghurt/ ... lots of folders here ... a.txt bee.txt foo.txt foobar.jpg winkwink.jpg In this example, hitting the up/down keys after typing "foo" lets you jump from the folders to the (distant) "foo-" files easily. However, there's no obvious way of how to end this cycling action, to let you use the arrow keys normally again. Also, if you have a single file with the prefix, hitting up/down appears to do nothing because they cycle among the same file. Proposal: - If there is only a single file with the prefix, no cycling happens. Hitting up/down gets you out of interactive search immediately, and selects the previous/next file in the list, respectively. - If there is more than one file with the prefix, hitting up/down cycles among those files. But if you hit the topmost file in that subset and hit Up, interactive search ends. If you hit the bottommost file in the subset and hit Down, the search also ends. These would take you to the files immediately above/below the files with the prefix, respectively.
closing out old bugs