Add quick search for listboxes

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This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4161
Reporter	jedi7 (devel@….org)
Keywords	listbox, search, chown

This patch add support to fast move to item in list.
When a-z key is pressed, then it search first character in list and move select to him.

It is extremely usable on chown dialog, where searching for proper name is hell.
Now you can just press first character of name and it moves here.

Patch attached and also here: #160

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Original attachments:

• 0001-Add-support-for-fast-select-in-listbox-by-key.patch (raw) by jedi7 (devel@….org) on Dec 22, 2020 at 19:23 UTC

[mc-butler]

Changed by jedi7 (devel@….org) on Dec 22, 2020 at 19:23 UTC

• Attachment 0001-Add-support-for-fast-select-in-listbox-by-key.patch (raw) added

patch

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 23, 2020 at 5:42 UTC (comment 1)

Related to #1636.

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 23, 2020 at 12:23 UTC (comment 2)

• Branch state changed from on review to no branch
• Summary changed from Add fast search for listboxes to Add quick search for listboxes

If you propose your patches to some project, please don't ignore coding style used in that project.

Use of first char only for quick search is semi-solution. Only [a-z] chars are handled, all other chars (capital letters, digits, non-latin chars) are ignored. Full-functional quick search (as in file panel) should be implemented for WListbox widget.

[mc-butler]

Changed by jedi7 (devel@….org) on Dec 23, 2020 at 15:23 UTC (comment 3)

The search was supposed mainly for the chown dialog, where are only a-z chars. I have no knowledge for bigger changes in this project. So I choosed this KISS solution.