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Another (hopefully easy) question. :)

Is there any way to make FARR not return aliases unless the regexp pattern matches exactly?

For example, say i have a Wikipedia search alias with this pattern: ^wiki (.+)

My expectation was that this alias would not be returned, at all, unless that EXACT regexp was matched (e.g., the text 'wiki', followed by a space, followed by at least one more character). However, that is not what's happening. Instead, FARR returns the alias itself as if it were an item in the file system. So for example if i search for the string wik, with no space or anything else after it, i get an entry that says 'Wikipedia search ($$1 — look up in Wikipedia)'.

Is there any way to turn this off? I don't want to see it unless it matches the regexp exactly.

cheers

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Find And Run Robot / score based on history for individual searches
« on: February 20, 2010, 07:58 AM »
Hi, i'm reluctantly using Windows 7 on a new netbook i've got (coming from a Mac-only environment), and since i can't stand Launchy i'm trying to use FARR as my Quicksilver substitute. For the most part it's OK, but one of the things i can't figure out is how to get FARR to score items based on each individual search, not based on a global history.

As an example, on my Mac i've got Quicksilver set up to return results the following way:

  • searching for the text dr returns as the first result the Dropbox FOLDER (~/Dropbox)
  • searching for the text drop returns as the first result the Dropbox APPLICATION (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

I can not get FARR to do this. Instead, FARR weights each result as if it exists in a vacuum -- so, for example, if i've launched the Dropbox folder 6 times and the Dropbox application 5 times, then the Dropbox folder will be returned for both dr and drop.

Is there any way i can change this (without adding 'key words' or any other extra text)?


On a related note -- another thing that comes along with Quicksilver's per-search history is that in QS you can right-click an item in the results list and choose 'make this default for <current search text>'. This way you can quickly and easily set any arbitrary result to be the top match for a specific search (the FARR equivalent might be adding +9999 score or something). Can this be done too without manually adding every single result i want (and deleting them later if i change my mind) in the 'pattern scoring' options?

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