From 6511e5362e01ee0612d65c84e55372e124805501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dalthviz <d.althviz10@uniandes.edu.co>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 14:52:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Set focus for filter line when doing symbol search.

---
 spyder/widgets/fileswitcher.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spyder/widgets/fileswitcher.py b/spyder/widgets/fileswitcher.py
index 49ae510e45a..cf136dcbbf4 100644
--- a/spyder/widgets/fileswitcher.py
+++ b/spyder/widgets/fileswitcher.py
@@ -760,6 +760,10 @@ def setup_symbol_list(self, filter_text, current_path):
         # To adjust the delegate layout for KDE themes
         self.list.files_list = False
 
+        # Select edit line when using symbol search initially.
+        # See issue 5661
+        self.edit.setFocus()
+
         # Move selected item in list accordingly
         # NOTE: Doing this is causing two problems:
         # 1. It makes the cursor to auto-jump to the last selected