autocompletion in 'prepare diff' overrides text when tabbing out

[theultramage@…]

The autocompletion feature does not respond fast enough, so I usually type in the repository paths myself. However, after I type in the path I want, the suggestions menu pops up, with focus on another subdirectory (probably due to processing lag).

However, if I use 'tab' to jump to the next input box, the text I wrote into the first box gets replaced by the first path in the suggestions box. So I have to click somewhere to make the popup disappear, otherwise I lose the text that I typed in.

[ebray]

I think instead of autocompletion, it might be more useful to have a pop-up repository browser. I implemented such a thing for a file-select ticket field type, and users seem to like it.

[Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>]

I think that the problem lies in js/suggest.js

        case 9:  // tab
        case 13: // return
        case 39: // right
          if (results) {
            var li = $("li.selected", results);
            if (li.length) {
              select(li);
              e.preventDefault();
            }
          }

does not check whether the user already has input something different to what is currently auto-selected in the suggesting box.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Closing as wontfix for 1.0-stable. suggest.js is replaced with jQuery-UI autocomplete for Trac 1.2 in #12169.