550251 - Quickopen UI

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Command Line, defect, P1)

Description

[Kevin Dangoor]

Because the command line and quickopen will be the primary way to get to files 
(and, in fact, the only way in the first public release of the Rebooted 
Bespin), we need to provide users with a good way of finding and selecting the 
file or directory they want to work with.

The plan is that when a user is completing something like a filename, a 
non-modal popup dialog will appear that the user can move up/down through with 
the arrows to select a file. The currently selected file will appear in the 
command line. The popup will need to act similarly to TextMate's... it displays 
the matching filenames followed by enough of the directory to disambiguate.

If the text entered matches the beginning of the file that is selected in the 
popup, then the completion will look like normal. If it doesn't (say you enter 
"npe" and "NullPointerException.java" matches), after the user's typed "npe" 
will appear something like this:

-> NullPointerException.java

in the completion style.

Comment 1

[Kevin Dangoor]

right now, if you start typing after an open command the selection window 
quickly gets filled with multiple copies of the same item.

Comment 2

[Kevin Dangoor]

The quickopen UI is actually present right now. I'm closing this bug in favor 
of opening new bugs as specific issues are found.