search.md

Search

By default, Rview performs a fuzzy search on filepaths. The fuzziness is achieved by splitting filepaths and search inputs to normalized words and generating prefixes of various length for these words.

Rview also provides more advanced ways to search for files:

• "exact match", ".jpg": Search for exact matches.
• -exclude, -.png or -"exclude with spaces": Exclude exact matches, use double quotes to exclude text with spaces.

Examples

Files:

• /animals/cute cat.jpeg
• /animals/cat jumps.mp4
• /animals/caterpillar.png
• /animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
• /dogmas/catalog.zip

Search Requests:

• caterpillar - search for filepaths that have the same prefixes as caterpillar (cat, cate, cater, ...). Results:
  • /animals/caterpillar.png
  • /animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
  • /animals/cat jumps.mp4
  • /animals/cute cat.jpeg
  • /dogmas/catalog.zip
• "caterpillar" - search for filepaths that have exactly caterpillar. Results:
  • /animals/caterpillar.png
• cat dog - search for filepaths that have the same prefixes as both cat and dog. Results:
  • /animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
  • /dogmas/catalog.zip
• cat dog -zip - search for filepaths that have the same prefixes as both cat and dog, but don't have exactly zip. Results:
  • /animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
• -"dog" -png -jumps - search for filepaths that don't have exactly dog, png and jumps. Results:
  • /animals/cute cat.jpeg
• dog "/cat" -mkv - search for filepaths that have the same prefixes as dog, have exactly /cat and don't have exactly mkv. Results:
  • /dogmas/catalog.zip
• animals -"cat & dog" - search for filepaths that have the same prefixes as animals and don't have exactly cat & dog. Results:
  • /animals/cat jumps.mp4
  • /animals/caterpillar.png
  • /animals/cute cat.jpeg

Examples are generated by github.com/ShoshinNikita/rview/search.TestGenerateDocs.