shortcut group case sensitivity

Currently, when typing in MarvinSketch to bring up a shortcut group, MarvinSketch ignores case.  But there are some circumstances where one would want case to matter.  Exhibit 1 is SBu and sBu.  We currently handle this example by not allowing a user to type either abbreviation.   SBu does appear in gray on the upper left of the canvas, but MarvinSketch will not select this group, and if the user doesn't type any more, no group is selected.  However, one can use the Groups menu to choose SBu; when one does, MarvinSketch selects BuS.  To bring up the sec-butyl group, one needs to know to type s-Bu.  

Anyway, I suggest that MarvinSketch pay attention to case.  Any chemist would know to type abbreviations in the correct case.

Hi Bob,

sorry for the late answer but it had taken some time to consult on this improvement, since we are under heavy load because of the 5.4 release, but finally we agreed with the suggested improvement.

We think that the case sensitive match could be turned on in the case when the user once holds the shift button to type a character from the abbreviation. Do you think this can be useful in this way?

We will try to implement it in one of the 5.4 patch releases, as we currently estimate. We will notify you in this topic when the feature is released.

Regards,
Istvan

ifajth wrote:

We think that the case sensitive match could be turned on in the case when the user once holds the shift button to type a character from the abbreviation. Do you think this can be useful in this way?

Yes, I think that's reasonable.

Ok, fine. Then we will implement it in this way. Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,
Istvan