QSDuffsRanker (TextMate ranker) anomalies after fix for issue #359

[fheckl]

As skurfer mentioned in the discussion for issue #359 my fix had some severe regressions e.g. not switching to text mode when no match present and the preference is enabled.
Will fix them with this issue.

[HenningJ]

Cool. Looking forward to using a fully functioning Textmate string ranker again. :-)
Maybe you also want to rename it. It was always confusing, since it has nothing to do with Textmate. Maybe something like "Duff String Ranker (former TextMate Ranker)". :-)

[fheckl]

I would like to see more opinions on the rename subject. Personally I would agree but I left it out of the pull request for the time being.

[pjrobertson]

I agree on a rename, but I'm not sure on what's best. Possible discussion for the dev groups?

P.S. Issue #395 doesn't link anywhere...?

[philostein]

I've bee trying the TextMate ranker in ß60 10.6.7 for a week or so, and I noticed for search it doesn't accept any characters apart from the alphabet. With the Default ranker '#' is handy to search for twitter tags, '<' for HTML code, '*' for a string of special characters I have on the Shelf, and so on.

By the way, I use a kana keyboard that defaults to romajii (roman) text. I've never been able to use '=' for the calculator function either. (Issue #290)

[philostein]

Names - [something] Ranker:
TextStart
WordStart
Initial

Other acronym style names:
Wranker (contraction of Word Ranker)
Iran (Initials Ranker)
Winker (Word Initials Ranker)

I tried to think of a contraction for 'Word Acronym Ranker', but I couldn't come up with anything, sorry…

[pjrobertson]

TextStart Ranker

Seems close enough to TextMate Ranker for people to still know what it is,
and seems more appropriate. I'd be happy with this.

On 12 June 2011 10:05, philostein <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Names - [something] Ranker:
TextStart
WordStart
Initial

Other acronym style names:
Wranker (contraction of Word Ranker)
Iran (Initials Ranker)
Winker (Word Initials Ranker)

I tried to think of a contraction for 'Word Acronym Ranker', but I couldn't
come up with anything, sorry

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[HenningJ]

I'm fine with any name, as long the Textmate is gone. :-)

[fheckl]

Updated issue description. It should reference issue #359.

[skurfer]

It probably should have been called the Macromates ranker, but I don’t think we can call it that at this point.

I wonder if it’s using the same algorithm that TextMate uses for ⌘T (Go To File), in which case it would be related, but I’ve always thought the name was confusing to people. I’m with @HenningJ. Anything is better than what it is now.

[mckeed]

Is there an update to the ranker itself? I tried using it with b60 and it's still broken for me. Whenever I try to input anything, I get [DuffStringRanker rankedString]: unrecognized selector...

[HenningJ]

Yes, download it from http://qsapp.com/plugins/ "TextStart Ranker (β60+ only)"

[skurfer]

All of the issues discussed here have been addressed and included in a new version of the plug-in.