[Notion-devel] feature request/dev help: "rebasing" queries

[Daniel R. <dra...@gm...>]

I started using notion again (awesomewm is awesome, but not awesome
enough), and became interested again in impementing a feature I've wanted
in notion and other incremental searches for a long time, which I call
"rebasing queries." An incremental search query is "rebased" when the input
is cleared, but the set of incremental results is retained. The user may
now input more chars, searching among remaining results.

Ideally would work something like this: I have shit tons of windows open, I
want to attach a the chrome window with gmail. I enter `M-a chro` and
completion window shows only browser windows. I now enter `M-a` again,
which rebases the attach-query (since one is in progress), and then `gmai`
and now only the gmail window is selected.

I'd implement it myself, but I don't know the notion codebase or lua very
well. I might be able to manage it if a more experienced notion developer
could give me some pointers. For example, I don't understand how the query
set is populated and modified in the first place (I think it's done in the
C code, but not even sure about that).

Peace Homies,
--Daniel