Feature: Option to not highlight first item in select-choices by default.

[clydetacoma]

This is my use case for this enhancement. We are using ui-select to filter a list of items such as [Status: In Progress] [Type: Estimate], but we also want to be able to use the $select.search text to search over our list of items. So I don't want the first choice selected by default and hitting enter will close the choices and use the entered text as the search.

I created a pull request that will add this functionality. #803

[nascosto]

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[clydetacoma]

I've created a plunker that shows a basic use case. http://plnkr.co/XfuJozUv5YfFnYHsVnZA

There aren't very many select options so the best way to see what i'm talking about it to type 'state' and hit enter. This closes the choices and uses 'state' as the search. If you want to select state press down then enter.

[florin05]

I think there is a workaround for this issue, by adding a class to the dropdown item that matches the one bound to the select, and use custom css to highlight based on that class

<ui-select-choices
	repeat="item in $ctrl.items"
        <span ng-class="{selected: item.value === $ctrl.selectedItem.value }" 
            ng-bind-html="item.description"></span>
</ui-select-choices>