Lemons Search

A fast fuzzy finder based quick switcher with preview.

The plugin adds a new quick switchers to make finding the files you want even easier and faster. The quick switchers lets you easily search all files in your vault and offers a quick preview of the selected search result.

To ensure top performance and high-quality results, the plugin is written in Rust using the nucleo-matcher create running in a web worker. This ensures that the majority of the computational load is taken off the main thread for a smoother feel.

Commands

• Lemons Search: Open search A quick switcher that lets you all files in your vault by file path.
• Lemons Search: Open alias search A quick switcher that lets you all files in your vault by file names and aliases.
• Lemons Search: Command palette A command palette.

Special Search Commands

Every query consists of search atoms separated by spaces. Spaces can be escaped using \. In the following illustration, each underlined part is a separate search atom.

movie Star\ Wars
----- ----------

Search atoms can be modified using special characters to change their behavior.

• Substring: prefix with '
  • will require search results to contain the search atom as a continuous sequence
  • e.g. 'foo will only match yummy food but not funny doodle
  • use ! to negate, e.g. !foo
• Prefix: prefix with ^
  • will require search results to have the search atom as a prefix
  • e.g. ^foo will only match food but not yummy food
  • use !^ to negate, e.g. !^foo
• Postfix: postfix with $
  • will require search results to have the search atom as a postfix
  • e.g. .md$ will only match foo.md but not foo.txt
  • use !<search atom>$ to negate, e.g. !.md$
• Exact: prefix with ^ and postfix with $
  • will require search results to equal the search atom
  • e.g. ^foo.md$ will only match foo.md and nothing else
  • use !^<search atom>$ to negate, e.g. !^foo.md$

Lower case search atoms will ignore casing, but as soon as a search atom contains an upper case letter, it becomes case sensitive.

Keyboard Navigation

While the input field is focused, you can use the following keyboard short-cuts.

• ↑ Move selection up by one
• ↓ Move selection down by one
• Home Move selection to the first item
• End Move selection to the last item
• Enter Open selection in same tab
• Ctrl + Enter Open selection in a new Tab
• Tab Copy the current selection into the search bar
• Escape Cancel the search

Some of these short-cuts can be configures in the plugin's settings.

Mouse Navigation

• Clicking on a suggestion that is not selected will select the clicked suggestion
• Clicking on the selected suggestion will open the suggestion in the same tab
• Ctrl-clicking on the selected suggestion will open the suggestion in a new tab