Better search

[ParadaCarleton]

Ideally search should use something like:

1. fzf to allow for slight spelling variations (e.g. hyphens vs. spaces or underscores), and/or
2. Embedding-based search engine (e.g. elasticsearch).

[ParadaCarleton]

On this topic: I'm only now discovering description search for octopi, which makes things a lot better for me. @aarnt could we make a combined description and title search the default, or have some way to make searching descriptions the default?

[ParadaCarleton]

If you're interested in improving the search but don't know much about search or ML, I can write the code for package ranking as long as you're willing to integrate it into Octopi (since I don't know anything about how octopi works). Basically I'd need a list of packages with metadata (description, downloads, AUR votes, etc.) and then I'd output those same packages ranked in order from most-relevant to least relevant.

[43615]

On this topic: I'm only now discovering description search for octopi, which makes things a lot better for me. @aarnt could we make a combined description and title search the default, or have some way to make searching descriptions the default?

Was about to report this as well, it should at least remember the last selected search mode. IMO searching by name is nearly useless compared to description.

[aarnt]

@43615
@ParadaCarleton

Upstream now saves last search option selected by the user.