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Bug 766365 - tabCompletion: exact matches are secondary to nearest matches
tabCompletion: exact matches are secondary to nearest matches
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 710274
Product: polari
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Polari maintainers
Polari maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-13 10:10 UTC by Bastian Ilsø
Modified: 2016-05-13 10:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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picture demonstrating tab completion (5.82 KB, image/png)
2016-05-13 10:10 UTC, Bastian Ilsø 		Details

Description Bastian Ilsø 2016-05-13 10:10:10 UTC 
Created attachment 327771 [details]
picture demonstrating tab completion

in this case, if a user named "m" is in a room and I type m and press tab, the tab-completed name was "mark_otaris". You can argue that in this case tab completion doesn't do much for me, but it's simply becoming a habit to press tab when writing a user's name. Hence I think it would be preferable to have any exact match listed as the first suggestion in the tabCompletion.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2016-05-13 10:13:04 UTC 
I don't disagree, but I don't think this makes sense as a separate bug. Right now, the list does not have any order at all, the bug to change that is bug 710274.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 710274 ***