Description Matthew Weier 2013-08-23 23:07:30 EDT

Created attachment 234724 [details]
A visual mockup of the enhancement.

When the auto-activation dialog is activated (by default by typing the "." character) it would be nice if not only all options which start with the next few characters typed would show-up but also those which contain the "string" typed after the "." character.

If I was designing it, I'd have 2 lists side-by-side.
By default focus would be given to the original (left) list but by pressing a command key and left/right, the new list would be given focus.
The background color of the 2 lists could be changed to make it obviously distinct.


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* Example *
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If the developer types:
   String aStr = "just a test";
   aStr.index

The auto-activation would show the current list that gets shown along with another list next to it containing the options which contain the string "index".

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 | indexOf(int ch)                    | lastIndexOf(int ch)                    | | Details of the item selected from the left will show here. |
 | indexOf(int ch, int fromIndex)     | lastIndexOf(int ch, int fromIndex)     | |                                                            |
 | indexOf(String str)                | lastIndexOf(String str)                | |                                                            |
 | indexOf(String str, int fromIndex) | lastIndexOf(String str, int fromIndex) | |                                                            |
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