Lemons Search

A fast fuzzy finder based quick switcher with preview.

The plugin add a new command Lemons Search: Open search that opens the quick switcher. The quick switcher lets you easily search all file paths 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 of the main thead for a smoother feel.

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
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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$

Keyboard Navigation

While the focus is in the input field, you can use the following special actions.

• uparrow Move selection up by one
• downarrow Move selection down by one
• enter Open selection
• tab Copy the current selection into the search bar

Mouse Navigation

• Clicking on a suggestion that is not selected will select the clicked suggestion
• Clicking on the selected suggestion will open the suggestion