Will the colon issue be fixed in v1.5?

[Link]

You can't search for "Star Trek: Prodigy". You must remove the colon for the search to work.

A suggestion is that everything will ignore the colon when it doesn't recognize a command before the colon so files like "Star.Trek.Prodigy.S01E03" will show up in the results as expected.

[therube]

A colon is not normally allowed in a file name.
So how are you creating a filename with a colon in it?

If you're initiating the search from some other application, you can filter what is sent to Everything.

Similar to this:

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javascript:location.href='es:'+document.getSelection().toString().replace(/[\!\#\$\-\{\}\(\)\[\]\)\.\,\_]/g,'%20');void(0)

(In the above, colon is not filtered, but you can add it to the filtered list so it is.)


What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names?

[horst.epp]

There is no issue to fix !
A colon is illegal in a file name but its used under Windows NTFS volumes to add streams to a file.
So it should not be ignored and just be used as intended by Microsoft.

[void]

Use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste text into the search box without punctuation.

[trufindR]

I joined today so I can say "Thank You" - not only for this 'can't-compute-without-it' software,
but also for the much-needed ability to paste without punctuation!!

Similar to the OP's initial post, I'll often copy some title from a webpage - -

where of course html is made up of all the punctuation symbols that aren't allowed in filenames -
as horst.epp makes clear -

and then have to interrupt the speedy work flow of mouse gesture pasting
to return to the keyboard and delete some < : : / \ > and so forth.

I just upgraded my old StrokeIt ctrl-v to ctrl-shift-v,
and now I'm flying like never before ....

so Thanks again - Best! to All