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See issue #32909 for some background. If you start to search in the Explorer by pressing some keys, and then hit Backspace to undo some of the search, it should backtrack to what was selected when you previously had only that substring entered - or if you delete all characters, it should backtrack all the way to the selection in effect before the search box opened. Instead, Backspace does not move the selection (though typing new characters after Backspace does correctly search for the new prefix). Try using link searching in Mozilla 1.2+ to experience the correct behavior.
Relatively minor.
Created attachment 10169 [details] a possible patch
Created attachment 10170 [details] jar into patches/lib
I attached one of possible patches. It works that it selects the first occurrence (from top of tree) of nodes which node's name matches with prefix in search field. Backspace now backtracks around the first matches. But. it could be annoying that selection can jumped after whole tree if it's large. The current implementation pushes for minimum of selection jumps if possible. Jesse, could you consider if this patch meets a expectation. Thanks
Jiri,It looks fine for me ;) But, java is CaseSensitive, should the searching be CS too???
Assigned to new owner.
Still does not work in 4.2 dev, i know it's a minor bug (but we have some proposed patch), but fixing this increases usability IMHO.
Reassigning to new module owner Tomas Holy.
core-main #9543ac461adf
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200908210201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/9543ac461adf User: Tomas Holy <t_h@netbeans.org> Log: #32915: Backspace in Explorer pop-up search field does not backtrack