Quick Switcher: Ignores Single-Letter Words in Prioritization Process

[Skirdes]

Steps to reproduce

• Open the sandbox vault and delete all files/folders.
• Create the files A B and Cable.
• Open the Quick Switcher (Ctrl + O) and search for A B.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Y

Expected result

The file A B.md is the first recommendation.

Actual result

The file Cable.md is the first recommendation.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.9.11
	Installer version: v1.9.10
	Operating system: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22631
	Login status: logged in
	Language: en
	Catalyst license: insider
	Insider build toggle: on
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 0
	Plugins enabled: 0

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none

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Additional information

• Relevance: I primarily use Obsidian as a note-taking app in which every file is a concept (e.g. Force.md, Atom.md, Mathematical Group.md, …), similar to how RemNote defined their “Concept Rems” (but I switched to Obsidian because their Software is extremely slow). There I highly rely on the Quick Switcher. For example in the above example I only have 4 Notes being prioritized before the note A B. If I’d have 30 concepts with an ab in it I wouldn’t be able to find the note A B with the Quick Switcher at all. I see 3 problems:
  • If I can’t find my files with the Quick Switcher anymore I may completely forget that I’ve even added them to my knowledge base.
  • I use the Quick Switcher as a concept suggester to improve my use and understanding of terms (for example the term Scientific Phenomenon is more precise than Phenomenon because there’s a Philosophical Phenomenon concept that means something completely different.). This may not be possible anymore.
  • It would be cumbersome to write text since I always link the concepts whenever I use them and it would be inconvenient to write them manually.

[Skirdes]

Here I have a practical case of the bug which could lead to future problems in my personal knowledge base.

• Problem: I typed Personality Type A but the first recommendation is Personality Type. If I should have more Personality Type-Concepts then I’ll come into trouble as I won’t find Personality Type A anymore at all.
• Bug Notes:
  • It seems that the bug happens especially if words of single letters (in this case A) are used.
  • I’ve tried to rename the folders Personality Type Theories and Type A and Type B Personality both to dfg but Personality Type is still prioritized before Personality Type A.

[WhiteNoise]

quick switcher doesn’t ignore single letter words.

From the issue reported in the sandbox vault,I think you want this:

Quick Switcher - Link suggestion: give priority to results that include space in search and/or are shorter

Use case or problem I know the filename including its spaces and I want to open this file. However, there are other similar files which have no space and a much longer filename that are given higher priority, when I start writing more characters in the search, even when I add the unique space. Setup: Create files “chapter 0.md”, “chapter0_audio.md”, “chapter0_image.md” Search issue: Open Quick Switcher (Ctrl+O) and search “chapter” => So far, “chapter 0” is displayed at the top, followed…