Smart report definition tools - wishlist

[Mike Holmes]

When creating reports that compare a measurement such as for sched_latency-d-1-t-5-c-100 max in the attached screen shot, it would be nice if on adding another filter the pattern for the test case selected were remembered, and that same test case highlighted by default in the newly added filter.
Alternatively, when typing the name of the filter without remembering the previous selection, report generation would be greatly speeded up if the list of possible tests resolved in real time as a regular expression, just as selecting the filter, prior to selecting the test does now.

Currently when finding a test in a list that can be 50+ items deep, pressing "s" to find the above case requires cycling though many false hits because the search only works for the first letter of the test name. For example typing "sc" would initially show you the first of the tests starting with s followed moments later the first of the tests starting with c.

[Alan Bennett (akbennett)]

Let's spend a few minutes thinking about this and how we could implement it and record those thoughts for future disposition