VA's auto-complete has some nice features, but would it be possible for there to be a way to add a keystroke which allows us to search for some of the content in a token's definition, rather than the token name itself?
char something[] = "123 thing";
char someotherthing[] = "456 thing";
k = some
At this point VA shows me two choices, "something" and "someotherthing" because they match the "some" I'ved typed in. But, suppose I couldn't remember the name, or find it in the list because the possible choices are larger than these, but I do know something in the text I want. In this case, I know I want the "456" item, but I don't know what it's called.
Would there be a way to use something like Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar to toggle between variable content searches and variable names, so that I could type "some" and have it showing me a list of candidate matches, I then press Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar and it toggles to variable content, searching all variable names that have "some" in them somewhere, with whatever I type after that also matching the string?
It could show up like: some["456"]
+------------------------------------+
|char someotherthing[] = "456 thing";|
+------------------------------------+
Showing the name next to it, along with its definition line in the popup menu.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
Search for variable content rather than name
Posted - May 16 2016 : 2:14:41 PM
