[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 93166] Web Inspector: Select the shortest match in the FilteredItemSelectionDialog

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93166





--- Comment #4 from johnjbarton <johnjbarton at chromium.org>  2012-08-06 09:22:22 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't think this is a proper way to fix this.
> This problem is a result of the http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/116244 which made filtering less restrictive.

(FFR, BUG was https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85586)

> Initially filtering was working similarly to eclipse and supported camel case search (e.g. AdSC for AdvancedSearchController).
> http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/116244 made it work similarly to Sublime and made camel case search almost unusable (too many false positive results).
> I would revert r116244 but I'd like to hear other opinions on that.
> John, what do you think?

I really like the emacs solution to this dilemma: 

If the user makes the effort to Capitalize, then the user means "match this using Capital letters". Lower case implies case-insensitive match. A subtle issue is whether any Cap forces all case sensitive or just on the one letter.

If we implement such a rule, then we solve your complaint (and the specific example above) and retain the advantage sought by bug 85586.

What do you think?

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