Feature request: fuzzy search
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Would be really nice if there was the option of having a fuzzy search for the launcher, I misspell things way too often.
It's already fuzzy for untyped characters. It's more tricky to be fuzzy for typed characters... If anyone has a good lib/algorithm, I'm okay with adding it. It's not something I feel like inventing myself, though.
In the meantime, a good advice is to find shorter substrings to write (e.g. to launch "Firefox Nightly", I just type "nig"). Less risk of typos.
I was thinking something like https://github.com/lotabout/fuzzy-matcher though I don't actually know how much better it is tbh
I just had a go, this doesn't actually help if you type the wrong character completely so maybe this isn't the best idea
fair enough, I should definitely look at stuff harder before making silly issues