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Command palette: remove unrelated results consisting of far spread single character only matches

Open Bananeweizen opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Filter out search results that consist only of far spread matches of unrelated characters. All of the results in the screenshot contain the 6 characters "firefo" spread over the application name and description, but none of that is a useful result.

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"All characters contained in order" is not a sufficiently good criteria. The matching characters should be closer together or at least some of them should be directly connected.

Scenario when this would be used?

Every time someone types a word to search. People don't want to match arbitrary sub sequences of text with the single characters of the words they type.

Supporting information

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Bananeweizen avatar Jun 11 '25 16:06 Bananeweizen