Alias with a space in the name not working

[BrokenNails]

I recently added a simple alias for my bank's website containing a name and a result (ie no regex).

I discovered that if the name I gave it (the alias) was only one word eg "Bank" then I could type part of that name eg "ban", FARR would show the bank alias in the dropdown, and would launch the website if I selected it.

If, however, the alias name had a space in it eg "Bank Online" then when I typed "ban", FARR would again show the alias in the dropdown but if I clicked it it would just expand what I'd typed to "Bank Online" but wouldn't actually launch the website.

I tried this with a number of other aliases and there was definitely a difference between aliases with a space (or multiple words I guess) in the name and those without.

NOTE: this is not the case if you add a regex to the alias. eg in the case above I could get "Bank Online" to work correctly if I simply added the regex pattern "bank online". Given the pattern was considered 'optional' I wonder if this is an issue or I'm using FARR incorrectly...?

[nitrix-ud]

i also noticed that, what i do is what you did last...
always use a regex mask

name of the aliase :
keywords

regex :
^keywords$

other things i do (for modifiers)

for folder keyword i use : folder_nameoffolder
for action keyword i use : open_nameofprogram

i always do that since if you use the same name, you can have very strange behaviour (very difficult to "debug")

[mouser]

im afraid this is true, farr does not match alias names with spaces properly.  i have on my todo list to decide how to handle this, but you can use regular expression match as nitrix said to get around the limittion for now.

[BrokenNails]

Thanks guys. It's not a major issue (especially given the regex workaround) - I was mainly concerned that perhaps I'd misunderstood how to use FARR correctly!