Ng-select: selectOnClose, don't lose what the user typed in when clicking away

[jsgoupil]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Native dropdown will select the option when closing, no need to press TAB or ENTER. I would love to see something like [selectOnClose] for the item that is currently marked. Or whatever is highlighted is selected immediately (instead of just being "marked")

So for instance, if I filter down the dropdown with typed in text, when I click out of the dropdown I would love that it stays selected.
One of the annoying thing is if we allow also custom text to be written with [addTag], typing the text and having the only option "Add item ABCDEF" highlighted, clicking out just clears out the whole thing.

Now, I saw someone proposing a solution here
https://github.com/ng-select/ng-select/issues/687

However, it's quite a hacked solution because we have to handle 2 events to support this functionality; and it doesn't work well based on the [bindValue]. The close() method clears out important piece of data before the event onClose() is called.

Describe the solution you'd like

• A [selectOnClose] which selects whatever markedItem is highlighted (including the tags if [addTag] is active), OR
• Anything marked should be reflected in the model value, so pressing down arrow would actually change the value. This would behave a little more like a native dropdown, but would be quite complete to handle when typing and ending up with nothing selectable.

Describe alternatives you've considered
https://github.com/ng-select/ng-select/issues/687 ?

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[jsgoupil]

I would love if this were to be implemented.

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