autocomplete list behavouir

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Oct 1 20:23:14 PDT 2012


On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:

> i've noticed that when doing a fresh start like:
> ./subsurface ./dives/*
> 
> only some of the locations enter the auto-complete list (on my end it
> was 9-22 with missing 15). i'm not sure why this is happening, but
> there could be some logic of which i'm not aware of as i haven't
> checked this much.

So the logic /should/ be that there is a base set of "typical" tanks and all tanks from the dive file should be added. If that's not what is happening we should investigate.

> also perhaps when the user closes a file we could clear the
> auto-complete list i.e. make it local for a file until "close" or
> "new" are called.

Why would we do that? What is the disadvantage of having tanks that the user clearly has used at some point still available in the list?

/D


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