Board search should be fuzzy

[kittaakos]

Searching for ar du in the Board Select should return with result Arduino Duemilanove or Diecimila. Current behavior: no match.

[kittaakos]

It will be available as an experimental feature in 0.0.6.

[noob-master147]

Hey, @kittaakos
I would like to work on this bug

[kittaakos]

Thank you for your interest, @noob-master147. Unfortunately, the Pro IDE code is not open-sourced yet 😕

And we have this new feature kind of available from the next release:

Did you know; the Arduino CLI powers the Pro IDE. The CLI code is open source, if you want to contribute there, the is an open feature request for the fuzzy search: arduino/arduino-cli#629

You will need some golang knowledge ;)

[noob-master147]

thanks @kittaakos
i will surely check that out

[kittaakos]

Now it works even with whitespces.

[Ma5t3rful]

Now it works even with whitespces.

nice!
does it also search 3rd party cores?

[kittaakos]

Sure.

PS: I will ask around what's holding back the release.