You can reduce the number of displayed completions by adding a filter to the in-place completion window.
To add the filter, press
Ctrl+Return
. To use the filter, type a substring of the desired result. By default, filtering is by a case-insensitive substring comparision.
Figure 3.9 Example in-place completion window with filter
You can set filter modes to alter the way that the filter operates, just as described in Advanced Filtering. Briefly, you select options from the
Filter
dropdown menu or with the keyboard gestures
Ctrl+Shift+R
,
Ctrl+Shift+E
and
Ctrl+Shift+C
. The choice of items displayed changes according to the content of the filter pane and the selected filter options, and the label on the
Filter
dropdown changes to indicate your selected filter options.