Select VI Quick Drop Default Text

[d.w.b]

Quick Drop (Ctrl+Space) is often used to work with a selected VI (e.g. Ctrl+P replacement). The Quick Drop dialog window opens with blank text box. Default that text box to the VI name if one is selected when Quick Drop is opened. That text should be pre-selected so that typing replaces it (no extra keystrokes for backward compatibility). Furthermore, it would be extra nice if the selected VI was automatically highlighted in the list.

[fefepeto_kb]

This is an interesting idea. First of, I think what you are suggesting here is more useful when working with classes or libraries since VIs in memory cannot have the same name in other situations. Therefore it seams to be a corner case.

I would also be curious about the performance impact of prefilling the text and pre-filtering the results on usual project sizes (few tens of VIs, maybe over 200).

From the screenshot I speculate that this exact usecase you captured is  creating a new class from a template, which could be easy to do with scripting and probably quicker as well.

This is also similar to the idea of searching for VIs that could not be found and replace them from the search window. If you take the VIs not found part this idea want to achieve the same thing with a different tool.

My point overall is to make this optional. Also if it would be used on built in VIs or operators it might result in a list with only one element, which would make the loading of the Quick drop window less evident.