Oh interesting, I didn't know that residual learning had been implemented. I had something like that in mind but figured it'd be a more complicated thing to implement than what I suggested. Just did some tests and it seems to work well. Really glad to see this!
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 Apr 2017, at 12:35, random1destiny wrote: > > If you've ever moved your files around and need to reprogram all your > shortcuts it would be such a huge time saver to be able to assign multiple > abbreviations at once or bump up all the partial spellings so it catches > all the possible partial typings. > > I’ve edited Mnemonics.plist by hand in some cases, like when “1Password > 5” gets replaced with “1Password 6”. That’s obviously not a good answer for > the general case. Just an anecdote/idea for the willing. > > I’ll address “all the possible partial typings” below. > > Right now it's such a huge pain to program all the subsets such as: > > f, fi, fil, file, filen, filena, filenam, filename > > This could be made so much easier if you could just type "filename<" in the > Assign Abbreviation command and have it bump up the score for all the > subsets. > > Except that a sane person would only ever want to use “fn” as the > abbreviation for “filename”, which wouldn’t even get added using the scheme > above. > > Partial kidding aside, you don’t need to pre-define every possible > abbreviation for a thing. Quicksilver is already looking at things like > that before it learns anything. Just use your preferred abbreviation > naturally to augment the learning process. > > For example, if I frequently use “saf” to launch Safari, but one day I > type “safa” instead, QS should rank Safari higher than it otherwise would > just because I’ve used it more often than the other things that matched, > even though it’s never seen me explicitly use “safa”. > > -- > Rob McBroom > http://www.skurfer.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/blacktree-quicksilver/TFQgL6qRLrM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to blacktree-quicksilver@ > googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
