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Re: Spotlight not as smart

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In article <d852jiFp75pU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> <henry@att.net> wrote:
> > Spotlight under OS 10.11 (El Capitan) is less helpful than previous
> > versions. In the past, in most cases, I just entered the first letter
> > of the app I wanted to launch and spotlight would show it and I hit
> > return and the app launched. Now, when I type the first letter the icon
> > of the app momentarily appears in the righthand corner of spotlight,
> > and an expanded empty field appears below, as I type the second letter
> > the same thing happens, eventually after typing more letters the form
> > is filled in and only then can I press enter to launch the app. Is
> > anyone else having this problem?
> 
> With Spotlight, in general, after you type the app name out and launch it
> the first time, it should take fewer keys (you won't have to type as much
> of the name) to do it the next time. Is that not happening for you?

No. These are apps that I've launched several times and I thought
Spotlight would learn them faster than it has so far.

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Spotlight not as smart <henry@att.net> - 2015-10-13 10:32 -0700
  Re: Spotlight not as smart Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 18:58 +0000
    Re: Spotlight not as smart <henry@att.net> - 2015-10-13 12:48 -0700
      Re: Spotlight not as smart Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 20:45 +0000
        Re: Spotlight not as smart Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-13 23:54 +0000
  Re: Spotlight not as smart Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-13 22:36 +0000
    Re: Spotlight not as smart <henry@att.net> - 2015-10-13 16:38 -0700

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