I'm stumbling over another Prompt With List where it's picking an item based on characters anywhere in the list item and not giving priority to the first character.
Here's the list:
And here's what I get when I type "3":
The bad news is that I cannot type simply "3[Return]" because that gets me a choice of "2"!
That's so counterintuitive that I cannot think straight about alternatives. The only one I've found suggested in the forum (earlier in this thread) is to edit the list so that the initial character is unique for each entry. That is again totally counterintuitive.
A better, but still kludgy, workaround might be to create unique menu choice strings, rather than single characters, such as "{3}" at the beginning of the line, and then use a technique like what I did here to spit out the whole menu choice string when a single character is pressed.
Come to think of it, that will probably work fine, but it still seems to be a kludge to Prompt With List working counterintuitively and not simply selecting based on the first character typed.
@peternlewis -- Maybe that could be an option to PWL, Spotlight Mode or First Characters Mode?