Add back short substring @: to conveniently find local files by substring

[eugenesvk]

Let's say I have a list of files in a folder

/.tthidden
/1
/1 (Copy 3)
/1 (Copy)
/2
/2 (Copy 2)
/2 (Copy)

Following the tutorial, I invoke a in-folder Look Up action and then try to match:

• by starting name works (1 or 2)
• by copy fails, but then I see in the tutorial that @: is to search for substring
• by @:copy also fails (actually @:1 also fails

What am I doing wrong? Or has tutorial changed?

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What am I doing wrong? ...

It works fine for me, press Cmd+Opt+P and enter the substring.

Are you trying in a folder path that Spotlight has disabled? E.g. I won't be able to see any files under /tmp via Look Up.

[eugenesvk]

No, just checked in a ~/Documents, there is an old (so it's indexed) _1 copy.pdf file and I can't find it via @:copy.pdf or copy.pdf, but can find via the full name _1 copy.pdf, but again not via @:_1 copy.pdf So @: doesn't seem to be working

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Oh, I found out why. The feature description you see refers to Lookup in version 0.4.2 (August 2017). https://marta.sh/blog/look-up/ The new Lookup released in 0.8.1 no longer has this functionality. https://marta.sh/blog/lots-of-updates/

So for now you need to search by Name contains xxx. However it is not yet possible to repeat certain searches by copying and pasting. Because adding a filter relies on hitting the enter key after inputting one set of criteria.

For example:

• Enter the Name contains txt condition.
• Press Enter.
• Type prefix_here.

You can't quickly repeat this search again by pasting Name contains "txt" prefix_here. I think this is very inconvenient, even if it implements the custom predicate you mentioned in the other issue.

... Or has tutorial changed?

I believe the current version of the tutorial forgot to update to the latest feature description. Maybe you can update the issue title and content.

[eugenesvk]

So for now you need to search by Name contains xxx.

I don't even have this filter Name contains in the local lookup core.lookup.here, only in the global core.lookup

Also, typing prefix_here does nothing

But even typing Name contains "copy" prefix_here doesn't allow me to find the _1 copy.pdf by typing .pdf later, I can only find it via the full name, so I need to repeat Name contains multiple times, which is indeed an impossible inconvenience

[LynnWalton]

I'd love to see something like this added back too. Its my current biggest frustration with what is otherwise my favorite dual pane file manager for mac. The way that brings up the dialog is too tedious and doesn't work for me a lot of the time. And having the documentation and tutorials match the latest version would be nice too. But I'm thankful for the software nonetheless.