[quake3-bugzilla] [Bug 5303] New: Idea: Adding map description to autocomplete feature of "map" command?

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https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5303

           Summary: Idea: Adding map description to autocomplete feature
                    of "map" command?
           Product: ioquake3
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: Misc
        AssignedTo: zakk at icculus.org
        ReportedBy: thegig at supereva.it
         QAContact: quake3-bugzilla at icculus.org


Hi everybody. I simply wanted to propose an idea.

ioquake3 enhanced the autocomplete feature of q3 console a lot. Thanks to
ioquake3, when you press TAB key after the "map" command, you can see all the
available maps (or all the maps whose name begins with the letters you already
typed). Okay.

What about further enhancing this, by writing, after the map name, also the map
"description" (or "long name"... I don't know its formal name)?

e.g "\map q3dm1 TAB" would result something like

q3dm1 - Arena gate
q3dm10 - The nameless place
q3dm11 - Deva station
[...]
q3dm17 - The longest yard
q3dm18 - Space chamber
q3dm19 - Apocalypse void
(Maybe it may even use a different color for the description? I don't know...
decide yourself.)

This with the purpose of making maps easier to identify. Some people prefer to
remember a name like "q3dm18", but others a name like "space chamber"... I
think this system could be good for both kinds of users.

What do you think about it? Would it be useful? Is it stupid?

If you don't want to modify "map" command more, you may even invent a separate
command for getting map descriptions, but I suppose it should not be a problem
to modify an autocomplete... or is it? Maybe it would slow down the
autocompletion list a bit?

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