Making the autosuggest popup more keyboard friendly

[aubreyz]

I think when this pops up it should be easier to ignore it without doing anything dramatic, and without having to move hands away from general keyboard positions

At the very least, I think it should operate seamlessly if it is clear that the user doesn't want the offering right now. So:

If at the top of the list, up-arrow should close the list and move one line up in the note not cycle through the list with no means of escape (other than pressing escape)
If at the bottom of the list, down-arrow should close the list and move one line down in the note
Space should close the list and insert a space
Likewise for right-arrow, left-arrow

if I am typing a word like du.... it is reasonable for the list to persist
but if I type dungeon the list should not be there at all after the first few letters

and so on

Most of the time it is fairly non-obtrusive because the typing continues in the note -- but the capture of forward and back arrows, and up and down arrows when not necessary should be eliminated for a better experience

[claremacrae]

If at the top of the list, up-arrow should close the list and move one line up in the note not cycle through the list with no means of escape (other than pressing escape)

Aaahh.. On that specific one... Often the thing i want is right at the bottom, and the up-arrow to go to the end is a super useful shortcut to get there.

[claremacrae]

But to be clear, I do agree with a lot of what you say.

[claremacrae]

And thank you very much for logging the suggestions.

Another factor is to consider is preferring not to break people's muscle memory too often by changes to this feature.

[aubreyz]

If I did one thing only (not enough) I would definitely make forward and back arrows and space get out of the box otherwise there is no way to escape to basic keyboard navigation without having to take special steps (clicking the mouse, or pressing escape). The feature is new so the time to break muscle memory is good.... :). In terms of up and down I think it already does a good job of filtering the options, so it is not that much easier to navigate to the bottom of a long list by pressing up than just typing the second character of what you want and pressing enter (du - enter)

[AnnaKornfeldSimpson]

Does increasing the minimum match length setting help with any of this?

I do not think I had realized that the side-arrows are captured!