Inventory search

[byorgey]

As you progress through the game, most likely the inventory will get very long and it will be annoying to have to scroll through the whole thing to find that one item for which you forgot the syntax or need the recipe or whatever. We should add an incremental search mode, so that when the inventory is highlighted you can hit the / key and then start typing a few characters of the thing you're looking for to narrow the list based on your search term. Maybe brick already has something like this built in for lists? I am not sure.

[fryguybob]

I've wanted to explore brick for a while, so I started working on this.

[byorgey]

Here's another idea. We could add a very lightweight search mode that is activated by hitting /. Once in search mode:

• There is a notion of a "current search string".
• Every time you hit a key that denotes a character, it appends to the current search string.
• The inventory list is filtered according to some sort of (fuzzy?) search based on the search string. So typing will incrementally cause the inventory view to narrow. (And hitting Backspace will cause it to widen again.)
• Arrow keys etc. will still navigate through the inventory.
• Have to be careful to preserve the currently highlighted item (if possible) while narrowing and widening.
• The current search string could be displayed somewhere, maybe along the bottom edge of the panel
• Hitting Esc exits search mode.

An alternative idea would be to get rid of the / to enter search mode, and just simply typing in the inventory panel causes it to narrow. However, this would require getting rid of j/k for navigation and m for making items.

[byorgey]

Note that #151 contains an initial (but currently abandoned) attempt at this.

[byorgey]

@kostmo I see you assigned yourself to this issue a long time ago --- had you written any code for it yet? Or did you have any ideas beyond what's recorded here? I might work on it if you're not. The lack of inventory search is something that annoys me often. :smile: