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[Feature] Search with "full names" of projects #5838

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goyalyashpal opened this issue Mar 21, 2024 · 1 comment
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[Feature] Search with "full names" of projects #5838

goyalyashpal opened this issue Mar 21, 2024 · 1 comment

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goyalyashpal commented Mar 21, 2024

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  • Names of various projects are bad for various reasons - short, or ambiguous, or abridged etc.
  • Often projects with such names have an alternate unambiguating/full name.
  • But scoop can't find apps by that alternate unambiguating name.
  • So in those cases, searching them becomes a bit tedious.

Examples in scoop's context:

Other examples:

  • context vs context-typesetting
  • c3 vs c3lang
    (yeah, both these above things are not available on scoop. yet ;))
  • hy vs hylang

Describe the solution you'd like

An additional field can be added in the app manifest for such alternate names.

There would be strong criteria of course:

  • the name as it is, should be ambiguous enough
  • the alternate name should be prominent part of project

Umh, i am not sure if cases like goldendict vs "dictionary" can be solved generally. Think like this: someone may say, going by that, vscodium should show up in editors, etc etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • Searching in project description
    Discarded as it would be very expensive operation

Unrelated issues:

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goyalyashpal commented Mar 21, 2024

  • curious case is faced when searching with bcu,
  • which finds "bulk-crap-uninstaller" in CLI with no problem at all
  • but not on the website

so, it seems that these CLI tools also search in the binaries column too (as evident with searching on cargo).

but also, "nu" shows up on searching with "shell" in the website with "shell" highlighted in nu's desription.
so, website do search in the description too.

(yeah, "nu" doesn't show up with "shell" on CLI)

$ scoop-search bcu
'extras' bucket:
    bulk-crap-uninstaller (5.7) --> includes 'BCU-console.exe'

$ scoop search bcu
Results from local buckets...

Name                  Version Source Binaries
----                  ------- ------ --------
bulk-crap-uninstaller 5.7     extras BCU-console.exe | BCUninstaller.exe

@goyalyashpal goyalyashpal changed the title [Feature] Search is lacking [Feature] Search with "full" project names Mar 27, 2024
@goyalyashpal goyalyashpal changed the title [Feature] Search with "full" project names [Feature] Search with "full names" of projects Mar 27, 2024
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