<p dir="auto">the traditional windows search supports document search,folder search,... you should allow clients to search certain type of files, for instance, folders. btw, you should make as a single dropdown button, since i think the traditional search does not look simple enough.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Summary of the new feature/enhancement</h1>
<p dir="auto">I believe PowerToys Run would be a lot more powerful if we could have not only "&gt;" but several others characters that change it's behavior. Maybe even alias-ing some frequently used commands.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Proposed technical implementation details (optional)</h1>
<p dir="auto">I have seen some issues requesting for some features and I believe that this would be a nice add overall.<br>
Right now, adding "&gt;" at the start will invoke the shell and run what you write after.</p>
<p dir="auto">In issue <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="621370316" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3245" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3245/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3245">#3245</a>, it's requested to be able to do a web search. Having "?" at the start could tell PowerToys Run that we are definitely wanting to do a web search.</p>
<p dir="auto">In issue <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="621326450" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3233" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3233/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3233">#3233</a>, it's desired to have PowerToys Run to behave exclusively like Window Walker. Instead of limiting and having a toggle for that, we could have ":" to make PowerToys Run show <em>only</em> running apps.</p>
<p dir="auto">In issue <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="621184696" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3179" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3179/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3179">#3179</a>, it's suggested to be able to keep the shell open after executing a command. Having "&gt;&gt;" cause that behavior is interesting.</p>
<p dir="auto">These suggestions were made in the issues themselves, but I believe that is interesting to put them together in a new issue because it can become even more powerful with other characters.</p>
<p dir="auto">Maybe we could even have a section on the PowerToys Run settings to allow users to add their own? Or also add some alias? For example, if I often go between three running programs, let's say chrome, word and spotify, I could press Alt+Space and write ":c", ":w" or ":s" to go to the specific program because on the PowerToys Run settings I created the alias for ":Spotify" as ":s" and so on.</p>
<p dir="auto">This could be used for opening specific folders, running specific scripts with specific arguments*, and so on, as created by the user.</p>
<p dir="auto">Having the initial characters being the same between the alias and the command should be enforced or else confusion will ensue 😅</p>
<p dir="auto">*like "&gt;ipr6" be translated to "&gt;ipconfig /renew6" or "&gt;&gt;ipa" be translated to "&gt;&gt;ipconfig /all"</p>