Some indicator of "Spot" results would help on long lists

[j_c_hallgren]

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"a|b    = spot "a" and "b" & jump to next "a"

I wonder if this is a realistic use case. I rather say anybody who enters more than one pattern at a time is not interested in jumping to the first of them, right?

For me, I'd love to jump to whichever one of the multiple strings is closest to top to current list if I enter that...but yes, jumping to "a" when I've entered "a|b" is better than not jumping at all, but not ideal.

BTW, "a;b as an alternative syntax anybody? I personally find "|" hard to type on my keyboard (3 keys!). ";" still is 2 keys on a German keyboard. I'm even tempted to take " " (space) as separator! "a b most easy to type, and space is a very common pattern separator in search syntax on planet earth.

Having ";" as alternate would help us English keyboard folks as it's a non-shifted char here...but using space as separator? That would have to be optionally config'd as the spot string that I just looked for this morning included TWO spaces!

[admin]

BTW, "a;b as an alternative syntax anybody? I personally find "|" hard to type on my keyboard (3 keys!). ";" still is 2 keys on a German keyboard. I'm even tempted to take " " (space) as separator! "a b most easy to type, and space is a very common pattern separator in search syntax on planet earth.

Having ";" as alternate would help us English keyboard folks as it's a non-shifted char here...but using space as separator? That would have to be optionally config'd as the spot string that I just looked for this morning included TWO spaces!

No problem. "|" would remain valid as backup separator; you would use it in case your patterns contain spaces. We have the same already with VF which work with ";" but you use "|" if your pattern contains ";".

[j_c_hallgren]

Like the new changes VERY much but have question:

So now with recent chgs, is the ability to jump only with no spot gone totally? Not that I really think that's a bad thing, but using ">|" as leading escape could safely be used for this if some wanted it, right?