Applied Energistics 2

Applied Energistics 2

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Improve searches to mimic JEI

iammael opened this issue · 2 comments

commented

Describe the feature

Currently, some searches performed with Applied do not give the same result as JEI.

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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
  • (...)
commented

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

commented

I don't know how I didn't find that PR before opening mine, but yes, this is pretty much the same request.

I'm closing that one then, it's not needed to have both.