"Path" field in file chooser: If only a single selection exists, it should preselected in the popup : IDEA-14689

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Usability Problem
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Can't Reproduce
Assignee	Kirill Kalishev
Subsystem	User Interface
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Stephen Friedrich
4 years ago (01 Sep 2007 17:10)
Updated by Alexander Chernikov
4 weeks ago (13 Jan 2012 04:44)
Jira: IDEA-14689
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IDEA-14689 "Path" field in file chooser: If only a single selection exists, it should preselected in the popup

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If for the path that I have typed so far results in a single suggestion, then that suggestion should be preselected.

Thinking again: There should always be a selection in the popup, so that I can always accept a suggestion by pressing tab and can always see where up/down keys will move the selection.

Dmitry Jemerov

03 Sep 2007 12:18

4 years ago

As for me, I don't think this is a good idea. Often I want to enter some non-existing path (for example, "build" instead of "beans"), and such preselection can make it hard to do so. (At least it was very hard in some earlier build of Selena when it worked that way....)

Stephen Friedrich

03 Sep 2007 16:32

4 years ago

Then whatever it was that made typing a non-existing path hard to do should be changed/fixed.
Currently I can't really imagine where the problem might have been.

Alexander Chernikov

13 Jan 2012 04:44

4 weeks ago

112.406: seems to be Ok.

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Resolved Date

4 weeks ago (13 Jan 2012 04:44)

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Open→ Can't Reproduce