fix blurring of menu

[719media]

if you click and hold (without releasing mouse), the dropdown will still blur/hide. This is because the order of events goes

mousedown -> blur -> mouseup -> click

So basically you must click "quickly" or lose the menu

[tkirda]

What was wrong before? Now if you don't release it quickly it just hides suggestions and does not select anything.

[alpha-and-omega]

Yep, again and again and this fix still not merged for almost a year @tkirda.
#685

@719media the problem with your fix is, that if you start clicking on results and then move mouse out of the results div, and release button, then autocomplete becomes broken (focus lost and nothing can hide results).

So after 2 hours of efforts I came to this solution:
https://gist.github.com/alpha-and-omega/10f4644abed5abb393b285e92baa4015
This just prevents losing focus by mousedown event and everything else works perfectly. My patch probably makes it posible to remove that idiotic delay in onBlur handler.

[tkirda]

Thanks for this contribution, and apologies for the very long silence.

The project was dormant for several years and has just shipped v2.0, which is a ground-up TypeScript rewrite with a new build (esbuild), test runner (Vitest + jsdom), and CI pipeline. As a result this PR no longer applies cleanly against master, and the surrounding code it touches has changed enough that mechanically rebasing it wouldn't be safe.

I'm closing it as part of a triage pass on the long-stale PR backlog — not because the idea lacks merit. If this change is still valuable to you against 2.0, please open a fresh PR (or an issue first if you'd like to confirm direction); I'll review new submissions against the current codebase promptly.

Thanks again for taking the time.