Cerebro: App search by abbreviation not working

[vandamm]

Cerebro should be able to search for applications using first letters (ie searching for lol should yield League of Legends). Spotlight does this.

[KELiON]

@vandamm wow, never knew that. It worth to be added!

[maximbaz]

I wonder if we could use fzf to do a fuzzy search on everything, imagine how cool that would be!

[elmerehbi]

Has fuzzy search been implemented in the latest release? I typed "thnder" to open thunderbird but it doesn't display it.

Also on Linux (Ubuntu Gnome) it can't find "totem".

[KELiON]

@elmerehbi no, fuzzy search is not included. I'm still thinking about it, because I'm afraid it could generate a lot of noise. So, currently to find thunderbird you should start your search with thun.... Another way works only if app name contains a space of have CamelCase (like ThunderBird). In this case you can use tb to find it

[aleclarson]

+1

Even if fuzzy-finding is too noisy, we should still find a way to get sys pre to select System Preferences. Right now, I have to type out the whole first word system pre.