Filter field in toolbar suggests wildcards for auto-content instead of regular expressions

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When adding, for example, a spacer, then changing its field type to Filter (set to Quick Filter mode), the filter's drop-down list will show suggestions for filetypes found for the focused file display, such as *.jpg. The issue however is that my filter bar is set to work in regex mode, and so selecting any of the filter field's suggestions do not help. When the filter bar is set to regex mode, the filter field should suggest valid regular expressions instead, e.g. \.jpg$.

Edit: If I turn on Match any word for the Filter Bar, then the wildcard auto suggestions work, but that's not really a solution I don't think. If you take a look at how the Filter Bar's extensions list button works, it sets the filter to *.jpg when regex is disabled, but when enabled, it sets it to \.jpg$.

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13.6.6 (Beta)

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It's just showing you the history of what's been used in the field previously, I think.

(The toolbar filter fields are legacy thing, by the way. We wanted to remove them but people complained. The Filter Bar and FAYT modes replace them.)

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It's actually the same as the button to the left of the Filter Bar: a list of extensions for the current folder, not a history.

That makes sense. It is kinda tucked away. I just happened to come across it after looking into the recent beta toolbar changes. Thought I'd mention it.