[Feature request] Complex folder structure search

[tirphana]

First off, huge thanks for all the work on this addon, it really is a life-saver and a time-saver in many ways.

Now, my question is, would it be possible to implement a search function that encompasses folder structures with subdirectories nested several levels deep that might also have overlapping names? E.g. say I have a bookmark folder ham/eggs/waldo/foo/bar and then more than one with similar names, say, spam/eggs/fred/foo/bar and want to save different new bookmarks to a seperate one from these by typing the path to the bookmark folder, for as of now the search menu just gets confused and throws random folder suggestions to me.

[JoseTomasTocino]

Thanks for the request! Let me try to understand what you need. Say we have the following structure, as you suggested:

If I use the extension to look for the foo folder, two entries appear:

So you need a way of identifying each entry by, for example, adding a prefix or something. Is that right? In that case, I think we could use the forward slash to mark the hierarchy, something similar to how xpath works. For example, in the case above, I would address the ham/eggs/waldo/foo/bar folder by using waldo/foo, or a partial match like wal/foo.

Would that work for you?

[tirphana]

Sorry for the late reply, I was too busy last couple of days unfortunately. I think I could've used a better example previously, so consider this one (I only opened the first tree for less taken space, all subfolders have the same structure):

And the suggestions I get are all over the place, with no way to figure out which is the correct one I want in a given case. And even though one can use the - to indicate the directory above, it still doesn't serve much purpose in cases such as the one I mentioned above:

I think we could use the forward slash to mark the hierarchy

That is indeed what I was going for, it would make the most amount of sense, if possible to implement.

Edit: My bad for not going through existing issues earlier, I just realised yphastos already suggested something similar a few years ago in #11 , feel free to close this if you wish so.