Usability suggestion: cycling through matches when pressing TAB

[esquifit]

One thing I miss in Ubiquity and which breaks the 'command line
experience' as we know it from, for example, the *nix command line
with bash completion and the like, is the ability to cycle through the
possible matches upon repeated pressing the tab key. I mean: If there
are three commands starting with 'foo', say foo1, foo2 and foo3, I
would expect being able to type just 'fo + tab' and have Ubiquity to
suggest the following when pressing repeatedly the tab key:
foo (common part of all matches)
foo1 (first match)
foo2
foo3
foo1 (start over again)
foo2
etc.

I guess it shouldn't be difficult to implement this functionality. It
does not break the current behaviour but extends it and, as I said, it
is consistent with traditional command lines.

[Timur Izhbulatov]

2009/7/11 esquifit <esqu...@googlemail.com>:

You're not alone :) There was already a discussion about command
completion behaviour in 0.5

http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/459e2d692b051d10/f80dd675426bb8aa

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