"Go anywhere" from sublime text

[Ville M. Vainio]

I believe Leo could benefit from having the "go anywhere" feaure from sublime text. It's activated by ctrl+p, after which you just start typing.

In the "video" on this website, slides 4 and 5 show it in action: 

http://www.sublimetext.com/

In leo, stuff you could type there:

- Headline snippets

- File names

- @function names

- #words in current node (or whole leo file?)

It's important that the number of hits is rapidly narrowed down as you type more text into the search.

I used this kind of feature a lot in Qt creator, and can testify it's an order of magnitude faster than using a mouse (first requires searching for a while from a long list, in case of leo probably scrolling around, expanding nodes since the node being sought is not visible in the viewport...)

[Matt Wilkie]

//matt nods head emphatically//

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-matt

[Daniel Rairigh]

Here! Here!

[Edward K. Ream]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ville M. Vainio <viva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe Leo could benefit from having the "go anywhere" feature from

> sublime text. It's activated by ctrl+p, after which you just start typing.

Yes, that would be a good idea. Ctrl-p is taken, though ;-)

Edward

[Ville Vainio]

Hey, so let’s do this then! :)

 

I’ll whip up a prototype soon when I get some quality coding time, unless someone beats me to it.

 

A must have feature seems to be doing search in thread to keep typing responsive

 

Sent from my Windows 8 PC

Edward

[Ville M. Vainio]

So, a reasonable starting point is "Locator" from Qt Creator (that you launch with ctrl+k).

http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtcreator-2.2/creator-editor-locator.html

Source:

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/trees/master/src/plugins/locator

most specifically:

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/blobs/master/src/plugins/locator/locatorwidget.cpp

[Matt Wilkie]

yay Ville!

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Ville M. Vainio <viva...@gmail.com> wrote:

So, a reasonable starting point is "Locator" from Qt Creator (that you launch with ctrl+k).

My vote for default keybinding, if I get one, is to use "Ctrl,Ctrl" (double tap single ctrl key; left one if it needs to be specific), or "Caps,Caps". Easier and faster than a key chord. Try it, it's very addictive.

-matt

[Edward K. Ream]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ville M. Vainio <viva...@gmail.com> wrote:

I believe Leo could benefit from having the "go anywhere" feaure from sublime text. It's activated by ctrl+p, after which you just start typing.

What's the status of this project?

Edward