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[Bug] Farr no longer auto completes custom alias after "tab" (v2.12.03)

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jgpaiva:
CatamountJack: I think the only problem is that your "enable" script is in the directories farr search. I suppose you never want to launch the bat file directly, so, just remove it from the "c:\shortcuts" and you should be fine ;)

nitrix-ud:
@CatamountJack
this one's got me baffled too

your "enable" alias autocompleting to a path ???  :tellme:

+ i don't understand why your aliases would not work
i have similar ones that work nicely...

mouser we need you ;)

what i suggested to mouser :
-autocomplete to the alias name + a space
OR
-autocomplete to whatever the user specified in a new autocomplete box in the alias edit dialog

that way we could give very meaningful names to an alias, so that we could "search" for it...

for instance :
Group Alias Name:  disable windows services hardwares
RegEx Pattern:  ^disable (.*)?
Autocomplete: disable{space}
Results:  disable $$1 | c:\shortcuts\disable.bat $$1

so you could type windows services to find you alias, but it would autocomplete to the correct "regex pattern"
today the best is to always keep the same name for the alias and the beginning of the regex pattern...

if the autocomplete box stays empty, then FARR autocompletes to the alias name + a space...

CatamountJack:
@jgpaiva:  Yes, I do include C:\Shortcuts in my search folders, but I have a lot of other things in that folder I'd like to continue indexing*.  Currently I'm assigning a score of +200 to anything in that folder to give it an extra boost.  I suppose I could rename my batch files so they didn't have the same name as my aliases, but I would think the purpose of scoring is to take care of that.  If there isn't a fix, I might end up doing just that, but I'm hoping mouser will create a different, trivial bug so he can fix this one!  But thanks for the suggestion.

* Having that folder is a hold-over from when I used Launchy.  I used it to force an index of  important places by placing shortcuts to files and directories in the folder.  It also became a dumping ground to put a bunch of launcher-based utilities I often run.  Really, I could probably do without it now, but I'm lazy and it is still pretty convenient.

@nitrix-ud:  Sounds like that would certainly give the program a bit more added flexibility!

jgpaiva:
Sorry, i really didn't express myself correctly. I meant that you move on "enable.bat" out of the folder, if you're not using it directly (except through aliases) anyway.
Does increasing the score of the alias fix the problem?

CatamountJack:
As someone who makes a living in doing computer tech support, I feel pretty stupid for not trying something so obvious already.  Yes, increasing the score of the "enable" alias does make a difference.   1041 seems to be the magic number to make it work.

Actually... I now just deleted enable.bat out of my scoring history and that seems to make the original 1000 score work again.  Sorry to hijack the thread over that issue.

Thanks for the help jgpaiva  :up:.

(Still hoping that mouser can make an automatic space after the auto-complete though!  :))

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