The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection
Keyboard: CTRL + ALT + J
Menu: View -> Object Browser
Command: View.ObjectBrowser
Versions: 2008,2010
Published: 9/4/2010
Code: vstipTool0086
The Object Browser has type-ahead support that is available in its lists. For example, I have a list of items in the Objects Pane:
I type "act" here is the result:
That's the good news. The BAD news is this isn't intelligent enough to pay attention to where you are in a tree so it will jump around on you a bit. It's not as weird as it seems if you understand that type-ahead is linked to the current pane. If I type "acc" in the Objects Pane, for example, the focus jumps out of the System namespace to another namespace that matches within the current pane: