apparent issue with aliases, notably "DC search"

[jdmarch]

When I type "Upd", FARR correctly locates
D:\Program Files\DcUpdater\DcUppdater.exe
and several other items in the same folder.

But when I type "DCU", it finds none of these. It only finds donationcder.com URLs

presumably this is finding (only) the dc search alias; I'm still not at all up to speed on aliases, but isn't this an incorrect parsing?

Thanks!

[mouser]

hi jd,
i'm not experiencing that behavior.. DCU is searching as expected..  anyone else?

[jgpaiva]

Same here. DCU works.
Notice that 'DC U' doesn't. But that isn't supposed to work, since 'DC ' (notice the space) triggers the DC search alias, and anything you write after that space will be used in the query to be made to the forum.

Maybe you could try disabling that alias, to see if you get the same results.

(instructions: see attached image, just deselect that box)

[mouser]

jgp's idea for testing is good -
i think i will also add an ability to see what alias/plugin created each result for debugging such things.

[jdmarch]

Sorry, I should have done this test first.
It's the "DC forums" alias, whose regex was:

Code

^dc[ ]*(.*)

(Why ever?)

Presumably an obsolete alias or at least an obsolete regex for this alias. I've changed it to simple:

Code

^dc (.*)

[jgpaiva]

Code

^dc[ ]*(.*)

(Why ever?)

Probably

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^dc\s+(.*)

would make more sense than the current one, but i think that's overkill.

Glad we got that figured out

[hamradio]

Sorry, I should have done this test first.
It's the "DC forums" alias, whose regex was:

Code

^dc[ ]*(.*)

(Why ever?)

Presumably an obsolete alias or at least an obsolete regex for this alias. I've changed it to simple:

Code

^dc (.*)

Hmmm if it is the Core-Websites alias I wonder why you got that alias regex...as the normal one that goes with the program should of been what you changed it to as that is what shows in my farr and I do the core alias files for mouser now.

[jdmarch]

I would imagine that existing aliases don't get overwritten, right? I've been using FARR for several years now. If this was an early version of this alias, then presumably the corrected version would never have replaced the early version?

[hamradio]

The core alias files I think should get replaced if newer on each install.  If it was FARR2 and also in the Core-Websites.alias...then I don't know why it showed that.  If it is in FARR2 and also in Core1.alias, then that alias file isnt getting updated anymore as the aliases that was in Core1.alias has been seperated for better management and such into 10 core alias files with icons for most of the stuff. So any help you can give into this would help us determine the cause for it.

[mouser]

good guess ham, i can have the installer delete Core1.alias if people have that file.

[jdmarch]

Problem solved. No, I do not have Core1.alias. I apparently copied the alias from this forum 17 months ago, in particular the regex from this post: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2378.msg16259#msg16259
My fault for heedless emulation.

[jgpaiva]

Oh, then that was my fault

[hamradio]

Ah ok at least we found out where it was coming from which is the main thing. Thanks for helping track it down for us.