Incremental search in Ctrl+D

[trismarck]

Hi.
I've been using TC's 'Favourite Folders' feature and I wonder, if there is a possibility to find a particular folder by incremental search.
When you press Ctrl+D you usually have to remember a letter associated with a particular folder to open it. The pain is that it has to be only one letter so the letters do not duplicate (for the fastest access). Sometimes, when you have many folders in a particular menu, those letter -> folder bindings can be inconvenient. But imagine that you don't have to assign\remember all those letters, but just type a few first letters of the folder you want to open. I think it would be more convenient. I.e.:
Ctrl+D 'd' 'o' 'c' for "Documents and Settings" or Ctrl+D 'D' 'e' 's' for Desktop. I think it's more of the way how my memory actually works. I want to access a 'Desktop' folder. I don't want to remember the letter assigned to the folder or to look through submenu directories to find it. All I want is to just type a first few letters and then select the folder from the list.
What do you think? For testing purposes, there could be a switch in the main menu, asking the user, which method he/she wants to use.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately not - Ctrl+D uses a standard menu, and you cannot search in menus.

[Russianbear]

Hi.

You can kinda simulate that by using submenues.

Press CTRL+D, then press 'C' to go into the configuration mode.

There you can set up a new submenu and bind it to the D letter and then make two different entries inside that - one for 'o' (for 'Do'cuments) and one for 'e' (for 'De'sktop). Then CTRL+d, followed by 'd', 'o', will take you to documents and CTRL+d, followed by 'd', 'e', will take you to the desktop. Or, after you CTRL+d, followed by 'd', you can pick one of the two with either the mouse or keyboard arrows. Or, you can make the 'e' and the 'o' to be their own subdirectories inside 'D' - and split it even further. That would take a tiny bit longer to set up, but the effect is the same.

I know you wrote you don't want to remember the letter assigned to the folder or to look through submenu directories to find it, and just want to type a first few letters and then select the folder from the list - but submenues can give you something close to that if you set them up the way you want.

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