Mark Lavin

Ah yes, shlex.split looks like it will make the search even more useful. --- Original Comment By: [Simeon Walker](http://bitbucket.org/simbloke)

Thanks @simbloke! This looks pretty good. I might change this to use `shlex.split` so that quoted terms are not split. --- Original Comment By: [Mark Lavin](http://bitbucket.org/mlavin)

I recently came across this whilst using selectable to so a person lookup. I solved it by using the basic query from grappelli, see attachment. --- Original Comment By: [Simeon...

Hmm. `get_item` is used by the field's `to_python` method as well and the request isn't really available there. I'm not sure it can be that strictly enforced but maybe I'm...

I don't know about `django-admin-bootstrapped` but there is code to handle this for the normal add-another pop-up. However, it requires monkey-patching the JS from the admin, namely the `dismissAddAnotherPopup` callback,...

There were a number of changes to the admin JS in 1.8 and I thought I had pushed this compatibility on master but I'm not seeing it. Where could that...

Ugh I hate the admin...

Thanks for the kind words! Just to be clear, are you are changing just the widget of a FK to use one of the autocomplete widgets to produce this behavior?

Thanks for the concrete example. I'll try it out and see if I can reproduce and get a fix in place.

I don't see this behavior in 1.8. There appears to be some difference between `django-admin-enhancer` and what landed. In 1.8 it is specifically looking for a select box which changes....