Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
> words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
> capitalisation.
> 
> For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a
> description of "HandBrake". The capital letter B is significant. If I
> search for "hand" or "brake", it appears. If I search for "Handbrake",
> "handb", or anything that crosses the capital B, the search fails.
> 
> Further, if I search for "and", it doesn't find HandBrake at all. Searches
> must begin at the start of a word. This *really* needs to be fixed.

This is roughly how I'd expect it to work, I must admit - I'd
certainly think of that as a difference in preference rather than
'broken'; I don't know the last time I searched for something and the
first thing that came to mind was the middle of the word.

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Avi

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