[Launcher] launcher isn't prioritizing *exact match*

[DHowett]

Environment

Windows build number: 19041
PowerToys version: 0.18.0
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug (if applicable): Launcher

Steps to reproduce

Install Vim/gVim.

Search for gVim in launcher.

Expected behavior

gVim is highlighted:

Actual behavior

Help is highlighted, which is in the vim start menu folder.

gVim is an exact match for gVim; there is no circumstance under which a user who types gVim wants to launch something other than gVim if gVim exists in the match list.

[DHowett]

This is also true of vim:

[jyuwono]

Hey @DHowett! Thanks for your feedback! We have an issue to implement exact phrase matching (#2451) which will solve this problem. What do you think about adding "" to look for exact phrase?

[DHowett]

Thanks!

I don't believe that I (as a user) should need to use "" to make it find something whose name is exactly my search term. If we implement search term weighting, and make exact matches weigh more, this problem solves itself without a special syntax!

[t-makaro]

I just noticed this when looking for cmd. Win+R, then typing "cmd", then Enter opens cmd as expected. With this launcher I end up getting the Anaconda python shell:

This alone stops it from being a Win+R replacement.

[alekhyareddy28]

Thanks!

I don't believe that I (as a user) should need to use "" to make it find something whose name is exactly my search term. If we implement search term weighting, and make exact matches weigh more, this problem solves itself without a special syntax!

Thank you for pointing this out. We're working on it.

[alekhyareddy28]

I just noticed this when looking for cmd. Win+R, then typing "cmd", then Enter opens cmd as expected. With this launcher I end up getting the Anaconda python shell:

This alone stops it from being a Win+R replacement.

Thanks for highlighting this. We're working on improving the scoring.

However, I would like to point out that to emulate Win+R, we need to add the > symbol and this
would be directly populated on pressing Win+R, once we enable the override option. Till then, the query would be > cmd and pressing enter would show up the command prompt.

[crutkas]

For @t-makaro, that is a diff issue. made it issue #3461

[crutkas]

We just released 0.18.1 which will have this fix included in it.