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diff --git a/desktop/README.md b/desktop/README.md index ed30620..42c2efb 100644 --- a/desktop/README.md +++ b/desktop/README.md @@ -39,11 +39,16 @@ gear tile opens it, and so does IPC: a short About. A page's back arrow and Escape return there; Escape on the landing page closes the window. -The search above the list matches each page's label and its module's -`keywords`, the settings buried inside the page; an entry matched by a -keyword shows which one. Enter opens the first match, Escape clears. Pages -load only when opened, so their live contents (a git alias, an autostart -command) are not searched, only the keywords. +The search above the list matches each page's label, its module's +`keywords`, and the rows inside it: every git value, every autostart line. +A row hit opens its page scrolled to that row, flashed in the accent. Enter +opens the first result, Escape clears. + +Pages load only when opened, so a module keeps its own copy of its rows, +`searchItems` (`[{text, key}]`), and the window calls its `refresh()` on +every open. `key` is the `objectName` of the row in the page; `Page.reveal()` +looks for it, waiting up to 3s for the page's data to arrive, scrolls to it +and flashes it, so a page needs no highlight code of its own. ## The modules |