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> If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match. How would this not always be the case anyway given the other rules in place?
by cstrat 8y ago
> If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match.
How would this not always be the case anyway given the other rules in place?
- pests 8y agoAgreed. Even then its hard to even define the next letter. With sub-sequence matching something like "gsl" might be displayed as "[g]et[D]isplay[L]ist" with items in brackets highlighted. No real next letter in this case.
- pfranz 8y agoYou're right in that this example violates, "When one option is the prefix of another, put the shortest one first." But a personal peeve of mine is Apple Spotlight. When I type d-a-s it autocompletes to dash.app, as soon as I type d-a-s-h it autocompletes to dashboard.app. Since it's built-in I felt limited in what I could do about it. Thanks to this post I looked up how to suppress it from Spotlight since I dont use Dashboard.
- sojournerc 8y agoyou might like this - https://www.alfredapp.com/ https://www.alfredapp.com/ - replaces spotlight, is faster, and fuzzy search seems better
- pfranz 8y agoI'll check it out again. I only use the most basic functionality of launching apps (I stretched out and started using the calculator a few months ago!). Years ago I looked at what was out there and used Quicksilver, but as soon as Spotlight started working for launching apps I stopped looking for anything else. I can't imagine anything faster than Spotlight other than the few times where it's reindexing.