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Case sensitive search #2309

@TheJaredWilcurt

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@TheJaredWilcurt

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require('path');, 'node:path', <svg path, "file path", URL path....

I am not looking for this... I am looking for the, all-caps, PATH. You know, the process.env.PATH. I want a Node library to let me permanently add/remove folders to the user's PATH. Something that takes into account all the weird shell nonsense on Linux, and runs whatever weird powershell commands are needed on Windows. I don't want to have to research and invent my own solution to this problem. Surely, somebody else in the 16 years that Node has been around has solved this, right?

But right now, my best option is, search for PATH, then go to the table view, hide everything except for Name and Description. The name which is always very tiny, and the description which is always very long, are both given 50% of the screen for some reason, so I open the dev tools, and fix that. I also disable the styling on the truncate class, so I can see the full description. THEN I use ctrl+f in the browser and turn on "Match Case" and search for PATH, assuming only libraries dealing with the PATH will put it in all caps. Then scan over the 3-6 results per 250 that came back. Scroll to the bottom, go to the next page and look again... There are 2,091 pages with 250 items per page 😅

2091 * 250 = 522,750

but I'm only seeing ~5 out of every 250 related to all-caps PATH or ~2%, so ~98% of the results aren't what I'm looking for.

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  • Would you be willing to help implement this feature?

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