Fuzzy search within Library view

[jonwilts]

Hi. Firstly - new user to kew but I absolutely love it. Really, really cool. Well done.

One addition I'd love is to be able to search/filter within Library view. I've got a big library, so scrolling down to the artist/album I want takes a while. I'd love to be able to hit a key, say /, and then type a few characters to have the Library View list show only those artists/albums that match.

At the moment the way to do this is to quit kew and then search from the command line - would be cool to do it from within kew!

Hope this makes sense.

Thank you!

[ravachol]

Thank you for the kind words! I've thought about adding that feature but this makes it more concrete. And using / might be a good option. I've thought about how to introduce search in a way that people will be able to use without reading documentation.

Maybe on a line at the bottom:
Type / to start fuzzy searching.

[Jaoheah]

Perhaps on the bottom [/ Search] could be added, like how the other important keybinds are there.

[ravachol]

Glad to see you 're around jaoheah! That would be ideal, however I don't know if [/ Search] makes it sufficiently clear that I'm supposed to type /.

[Jaoheah]

Glad to see you 're around jaoheah! That would be ideal, however I don't know if [/ Search] makes it sufficiently clear that I'm supposed to type /.

I think it would be clear, as all the others are the same, like [Q Quit] or [F3 Library].

[ravachol]

That's true, but it's different that you have to do more than just that. Maybe when you press / you get the further instructions.

[ravachol]

Or maybe that is clear too. I'll experiment a bit.

[jonwilts]

When you press / a search box could appear with greyed-out text saying "search", which disappears when you start typing. Two thoughts: firstly, after you've used it once it would be completely obvious, so don't think you need to give too many instructions, and secondly people are very familiar with the idea from websites, google, etc. Especially the kinds of people who are using a music player from the command line :)

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[ravachol]

Yup, agreed.

[Jaoheah]

When you press / a search box could appear with greyed-out text saying
"search", which disappears when you start typing.

Two thoughts: firstly, after you've used it once it would be completely
obvious, so don't think you need to give too many instructions, and
secondly people are very familiar with the idea from websites, google, etc.
Especially the kinds of people who are using a music player from the
command line :)

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Yeah, this is what I imagined would happen if it was implemented, a search box showing up.

[ravachol]

Now search is implemented in the develop branch. A few nice to have's missing, like scroll with page up / page down.

[ravachol]

New release, v2.5 with search is available!