Search on Tag suggestions: how to make broader?

[Grant837]

Qualifier: I created this problem a bit myself, but outside of that, this looks like something that should be possible.

When I search for a tag, using ‘tag:’ I can get a nice list of possibilities. However, if you continue to type, the results are restricted to an exact match, starting at the beginning of my text. Thus, say, if I have the word ‘screws’ lower in a hierarchy starting with ´woodworking´ I will not see that as a suggestion. In my specific case, I use ions at the start of my tag names, so I get no results, unless I make an effort to paste in the icon first…

Is there any way around this using the built-in Obsidian search plug-in?
Or would it be reasonable to suggest this as an improvement… the general search does seem to look for characters anywhere in a string…

Thanks!

[holroy]

We kind of touched in on a similar case yesterday in another channel, see link below:

Apply set theory to tags (hyperonyms) : linked tags

Adjunct to the adjunct to the adjunct, or something like that, it’s possible to use the line: in combination with other stuff to match related to parts of nested tags: [Screenshot_20230519_183031_Obsidian] But it’s more than anything proving that it might be interesting to take another look at how to use tags and how to search for tags related to each other.

In essence, is you use line: (tag /\/screws/) you would search for lines with tags that start with screws after the forward slash.

Not sure if you can use this for an incremental search, though…

[CawlinTeffid]

This feature is strangely missing (or broken). There is a feature request (you can upvote it by pressing the heart or commenting with new info).

Tag and link auto-complete in search

I am routinely inputting tags, filenames and links into search. Auto-complete would be really helpful. As a side note, I am using search to filter backlinks and would like to see some convergence of these features.