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Better search in 'edit deck'

Registered by gwern

When searching among thousands of items, 'edit deck's search feature is very clumsy, as it uses the bad old modal style of searching for a fixed string only on request. Incremental search/find-as-you-type, as made in Emacs and Firefox, is a vastly more pleasant way to search; it is more flexible, provides more feedback, and distinguishes better when dealing with many hits. (I suggest that enter/return be then bound to 'go to next result' and not 'run search' when isearch is made default.)

Blueprint information

Status:
Started
Approver:
None
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Peter Bienstman
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 2.x
Implementation:
Beta Available
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Peter Bienstman

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My current plans for 2.0 are to have seach behave as filter, i.e. only show the cards in the window that contain the search string. Whether or not we will be able to to this incrementally depends upon performance and needs to be benchmarked.

--I have seen this in multiple Python programs, it should not be an issue : )

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