Search mode triggers (was: Switch DartEditor control-3 (search) to defaulting to "jump to class")

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This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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How do users distribute on use of DartEditor's "search" feature (control-3 in Linux/Windows)?
i.e. are most doing (a) a "search" operation, (b) a jump to class operation or (c) other?

(I had assumed Google engineers would have analytics integrated for this sort of thing but Phil said sadly not [1]. Perhaps something for the future?)

Personally I'm roughly 95% using for (b), 5% for (a) and I don't know of (c) so if they exist, perhaps I need educating ;-)

If majority of users tend the same way, could control-3 be switched to default to placing an exactly matching class at the top of the list and default-highlighting that as the default operation? (matching what Dart's online doc does.)

Alternatively, Phil mooted a simple query language being another possibility: "We've had some related thoughts about streamlining navigation that are related as well (for example, supporting a simple query language, which would open up a lot of cool possibilities)."

1. https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/d/topic/misc/gYuylSwtHZw/discussion

Related to Issue #851.

[lrhn]

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[pq]

Thanks for pushing on this Rupert. I've been working up a proposal that should handle the 95%.

Watch this space for details! :)

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[pq]

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[pq]

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