microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
Command Pallete is not good at realizing commands from application names
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
### Microsoft PowerToys version
0.100
### Installation method
Microsoft Store
### Area(s) with issue?
Command Palette
### Steps to reproduce
Searching for commands that are typed slightly different from application names are not helpful. Hence, command palette is not a replacement for the power run.
### ✔️ Expected Behavior
It recognizes the cmd and show that as the first option.
[Cache the exes that are in the directories of the PATH variable]
### ❌ Actual Behavior
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### Other Software
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in the Command Palette area and reproduce the search described in the issue using the attached screenshots as the reference. The work is done when commands typed with names that differ slightly from application names are recognized as the first result, including executables from directories in PATH.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100