you can now easily right click on a result to add it to an alias, but i agree its a very powerful feature which is underused because it's a bit hard to use. how can we make it easier and better?
as far as non-contiguous letters.. it's not just a matter of speed its also a matter of what do multiple words do..
this is one of the main features being added for version 2; right now farr assumes you are typing a phrase when you type multiple words, and i'm enhancing that to add more options.
farr is more strongly based on the idea of intelligent scoring than the rest of these applications. it basically tries to heuristically score matches based on a lot of criteria to best figure out what you want, so it will match anywhere in a word but gives bonuses for when what you type matches the start of a title, etc.
so any extra matching has to fit into this framework..
so if you type "f f"
does this mean an F followed by some characters and then another F, or is order not important.
this also gets back to anothe idea we discussed and didn't fully resolve regarding whether multiwords should be treated as AND or OR.
so if i type: "word1 word2"
should this match all items with:
- word1 AND word2 in them, in any order
- word1 OR word2 in them, in any order
- phrase "word1 word2"
- with "word1" FOLLOWED BY "word2"
in general the farr philosphy would be to match on ALL of these cases but score them differently..
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