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jdmarch:
v 1.05.21

1. F&R apparently accepted my license key but Help-About still shows 179 days to renewal, even after exit / restart.

2. I don't understand alias groups. I have 2 aliases named:
  .abcx
  .abcy
but when I type .abc then only .abcy is shown though both are partial matches

3. When a group alias contains a URL, F&R is inconsistent about what it displays in the Name columns. It seems that this should always contain the URL. The following URL displays as expected (except see my note below about "http://")
  http://www.abc.com/site/index.html
But in this one, the final folder name is omitted altogether, making it very difficult to know what is being shown.
  http://www.abc.com/site/

4. Also, the URL parser for URLs in a group alias does not realize that URLs may contain colons after the http:, resulting in the difficult to read situation where this URL is parsed after the second colon instead of the first as expected:
http://www.abc.com:123/frontend/x/index.html

(Actually I'd rather that it put the entire URL including http:// in the name column and put the name of the group in the location column, but I realize that I have not yet grokked the essence of F&R so I'll just mention this as a weak preference.)

Thanks!

(I shouldn't be doing this right now, too overloaded... I should just use F&R to save lots of time and come back in a month when I can. But I did want to pass on these initial comments.)

mouser:
jdmarch, you may have downloaded a key before you were upgraded to charter member status, the freeware keys need to be renewed every 180 days.  go back to https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys and grab your universal non-expiring key and replace that from about box.

i will check the alias matching you cite - as you say both should show, although aliases are usually used by typing the full alias.

i will fix url listing, i think youve found some bugs in it.

jdmarch:
Thanks, the key is working now.

The reason to show all matching aliases is that I might not remember all of them.

Is there and explanation somewhere of alias groups? What happens if I have multiple URLs associated with one group name?

Thanks!

mouser:
having multiple entries in an alias is very useful -
they will show up in the results list when you type the name of the alias and you can choose between them.

note that url launching was not until recently appreciated by me as a real desired use of f&r, that's why support for it is not perfect.  but new releases will fix this, and we'll get it working perfectly.  support for searching firefox bookmarks is also coming.

the help file needs a little updating, but group aliases are in their under config -> aliases.

jdmarch:
Good, that is how I thought alias groups were supposed to work.

But FYI this is not working at all for URLs in a group.

I do understand now that URLs are a new feature in F&R, and look forward to their more consistent support.

Thanks again.

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