Re: Feature: Object Browser Open Quickly

On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 00:17 +0200, Eike Dierks wrote:
> HI everyone reading pg-admin-support
>
> I'd like to suggest a new feature to improve the usability of pgAdmin.
>
> Some of you might know XCode, the IDE from Apple.
> They have a feature called "Open Quickly"
> I believe such a feature would also be very helpful in pgAdmin.
>
> Open Quickly brings up a dialog with an input field and a list below.
> Upon typing into the input field a set of matching items is displayed in the list.
>
> In Xcode this is used to open files, but in pgAdmin it should be used to navigate to items in the Object Browser.
>
> For example if you type: cust
> It should display something like
> customers (Table)
> customer_name (Column)
> customer_id (Column)
> customer_id_pk (FK Constraint)
> customer_id_seq (Sequence)
> customer_view (View)
>
> and upon selecting an item from the list, it should open up the Object Browser at the respective item.
>

Yeah, that would be awesome. I don't want to be the one coding that
though :)

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