The forced use of the option markup-rows makes it impossible to search for the symbol '<'

[chmduquesne]

Hi,

I use rofimoji with custom files, because I like to customize the "shortcuts". For example, instead of using superscripts_and_subscripts.csv, I am using my own version, where

₁ Subscript One

becomes

₁ _1

The reason for this is that I find it orders of magnitude more intuitive to look for _1 than Subscript One. For similar reasons, I also defined shortcuts to mathematical symbols to their latex equivalent.

I would love to use a similar approach to look for symbols like ← or →, and type text like <- or -> to look for arrows. However, because the option markup-rows is used, rofi does not let me look for the symbol <.

I would like to suggest to make the use of this option optional, in order to make the search more user friendly. I personally don't care too much for the <small></small> style which often accompanies the description, so I would edit my files to remove this styling, because it makes searching much easier.

Cheers,
Christophe-Marie

[chmduquesne]

So, to summarize the issue:

I would like to change the text description of arrow characters to

← <-
→ ->
⇐ <=
⇒ =>

because it is easier to remember and faster than searching for "leftwards arrow". Currently, because rofi tries to show text as markup, it ignores the characters < and > in the search, which makes using such descriptions impossible. I am open to any solution.

Cheers,
Christophe-Marie

[fdw]

I haven't forgotten this issue, it's just that I see no real solution (so far). I like the styled descriptions to reduce the clutter of the keywords a bit. However, there seems to be no way to have both that and having > searchable in rofi.

Maybe some trickery to do away with -markup-rows if the items do not contain tags?

[fdw]

I think I finally found a solution for you, @chmduquesne: Can you please try to escape the angle brackets with &lt and &gt? This seems to work for me 🙂

[chmduquesne]

It works! Fantastic 😊