Improve searches to mimic JEI
iammael opened this issue · 2 comments
Describe the feature
Currently, some searches performed with Applied do not give the same result as JEI.
A picture is worth thousand words:
Here, JEI found that I was looking for the AE² crafting card, but my terminal isn't showing the card (it would appear if I correctly typed "Crafting Card" as is it stored in the network).
As a side note, I thought the new option to switch from AE search system to JEI's would solve that issue but, from what I understand it is only removing AE search bar.
Reasons why it should be considered
JEI (or even its derivatives) being such a staple, I think it would be good for players that AE search results mimic as much as possible the ones from JEI.
For instance, the possibility of typing just a part of the name of an item (ie: "craf card" or "capa car") or its mod is a good part of JEI search system, allowing to perform quick searches. Because it's not available in AE, I end up needing to search for items twice before I can get them.
Additional details
A few examples of where JEI would give an output but AE doesn't:
@ironf gold
-> Gold Furnace from the Iron Furnaces mod@ae cable
-> Any cables from Applied (even querying with the full mod id "ae2" doesn't return a result because there's no cables starting with the word "cable", only ending with it).@mek ulti uni ca
-> Ultimate Universal Cables from Mekanism- (...)
ae2s search is pretty simple, it only allows you to choose a search mode by prefixing the search string with a char (as displayed in the tooltip)
it then regex searches all items if they match in the given category (which is why you can use a pipe |
to search for multiple strings)
there is however an open PR that would fix this #7311