Discussion about pywhat output order and usability of given matches

[ghost]

The regexes clearly have some false positives, so we should improve the output order, add interactive mode or something like that. @bee-san @amadejpapez thoughts?

If you have any ideas or proposals, please post it here.

Originally posted by @piatrashkakanstantinass in #225 (comment)

[bee-san]

I imagine a interactive mode like:

There are 157 results, would you like to only show the top 10?

Would work out quite well. For single items (i.e pywhat text) the higher the rarity, the more likely it should be as it wouldn't have matched. Only showing the top 5% or so would work well.

I haven't given much thought to files though, although the same concept can be applied 😄

[ghost]

I imagine a interactive mode like:

There are 157 results, would you like to only show the top 10?

Would work out quite well. For single items (i.e pywhat text) the higher the rarity, the more likely it should be as it wouldn't have matched. Only showing the top 5% or so would work well.

I haven't given much thought to files though, although the same concept can be applied 😄

The good question is what should a user do to get the next results or results with a specific tag, name, etc.?

[bee-san]

I wrote a proposal specifically on a Kibana like mode #233