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What was wrong

Typing status:running one key at a time passed through status:r and status:ru, and each of those keystrokes put "status has no value r. It accepts: ..." on the screen, while the list under the search box was already offering running as the next word. The search box already passes over status: with nothing after the colon while it is being typed. The keystroke after that was still treated as a finished mistake.

What changed

QueryParser.StillBeingTyped: in QueryInput.BeingTyped mode (the window only), a member is passed over like status: when all of these hold:

  • it is the last member and nothing follows it, not even a space,
  • its only problem is an unknown value,
  • it holds one value,
  • that value is the start of a value the field accepts, compared the way every value is.

status:rx, status:r start:manual and status:runnin (with a trailing space) stay mistakes. The command line parses finished text (QueryInput.Finished) and is unchanged.

One condition is marked open in its comment: with the one-value check replaced by an always-false condition, status:running,st is still refused, so something earlier already turns that shape away. The rule stays as stated, and the test holding that shape passes either way.

Tests

QueryParserTests: the start of a value in the member being typed is not an error (three cases, red before the change), the members before it still answer (red before the change), and five cases where the start of a value is still a mistake. All 267 core tests with "Query" in their name pass.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • While entering a query, a recognized prefix of a valid field value no longer produces an error when it appears in the final, unfinished query member. The partial value is not applied as a filter, and completed query members continue to apply.
    • Incomplete values still produce errors when the query is finished, the member is not the last one, or the value does not match a valid prefix.

Typing status:running one key at a time passed through status:r and status:ru,
and each of them put "status has no value r" on the screen while the list
under the box was offering running as the next word. A search box already
passes over status: with nothing after the colon, and this reaches one
keystroke further.

The tolerance holds only while somebody is plainly still typing: the member
is the last one with nothing after it, not even a space, its only problem is
an unknown value, it holds one value, and that value is the start of one the
field accepts. status:rx, status:r start:manual and status:runnin with a space
after it stay mistakes. The command line reads finished text and is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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For BeingTyped input, the parser now skips a matching unknown-value problem for an unfinished final query member. Tests cover accepted value prefixes, filtering by earlier complete members, and conditions where incomplete values remain errors.

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Query value-prefix handling

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Recognize unfinished value prefixes
src/Bws.Core/Querying/QueryParser.cs, tests/Bws.Core.Tests/QueryParserTests.cs
For BeingTyped input, the parser skips a problem when the final member contains a nonempty unknown value that matches the start of a normalized suggestion. Tests verify that the partial value is not applied as a filter, earlier complete members still filter, and invalid or non-final prefixes remain errors.

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A completed invalid value can appear valid while a query is being typed, but the effect is limited to that input mode. This is a bounded issue to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

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Scope, Duplication And Docs ⚠️ Warning The PR changes user-facing query behavior but updates no user documentation. The diff adds QueryParser.StillBeingTyped handling that suppresses an UnknownValue for a final accepted value prefix in… Update README.md or the query-language documentation and the Unreleased section of CHANGELOG.md. State that, in the window while the user is typing, a final single value that is a normalized prefix of an accepted field value is tempor…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main behavior change: the parser skips an incomplete value prefix while the user types a query. It is specific, plain-language, and within the length limit.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Tests For Changed Behavior ✅ Passed The PR changes non-UI runtime behavior in QueryParser.Parse and adds QueryParserTests covering the new value-prefix handling, preceding-member behavior, and rejection boundaries. The authoritative dif…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only QueryParser.cs and QueryParserTests.cs. No private AI-agent files or .env files were added. Added-line scans found no credentials, tokens, private URLs, local absolute …
No Hardcoded Ui Styling ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only src/Bws.Core/Querying/QueryParser.cs and tests/Bws.Core.Tests/QueryParserTests.cs. It adds query parsing logic and tests, not XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF…
No Obvious Performance Problems ✅ Passed No clear performance problem is introduced. StillBeingTyped performs only string checks and scans the field’s accepted-value alternatives once. Those lists are small static tables (the largest has 1…
Desktop Robustness ✅ Passed The pull request only changes in-memory query parsing and tests. StillBeingTyped checks existing problem data, normalizes strings, and removes a parse problem; it does not load assets, read or write…
Safe File Parsing ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only query parsing logic and query parser tests. The diff adds StillBeingTyped, which examines query text and QueryProblem values; it does not read, import, export, …
System Changes Are Reversible ✅ Passed The PR changes only query parsing logic and parser tests. The diff contains no network, proxy, firewall, system-time, process-hooking, Windows-service, registry, or driver state changes. The reversibi…
Clear User-Facing Text ✅ Passed The PR does not add or modify user-facing text. It changes when the existing UnknownValue problem is suppressed while typing. The changed files contain only parser logic, tests, and comments; the ex…
No Resource Leaks ✅ Passed The PR changes only query parsing and tests. The new StillBeingTyped logic performs transient string comparisons over the per-call problems list, then removes the current problems with `RemoveRang…
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Explanation

The PR changes user-facing query behavior but updates no user documentation. The diff adds QueryParser.StillBeingTyped handling that suppresses an UnknownValue for a final accepted value prefix in QueryInput.BeingTyped; the new tests cover status:r, status:RU, and !status:runn. README.md still says a mistyped value is an error, and CHANGELOG.md documents only the earlier status: tolerance. The authoritative diff contains only QueryParser.cs and QueryParserTests.cs. No public API, CLI argument, configuration format, or persisted data format changed, and the implementation remains within the existing parser layer.

Resolution

Update README.md or the query-language documentation and the Unreleased section of CHANGELOG.md. State that, in the window while the user is typing, a final single value that is a normalized prefix of an accepted field value is temporarily ignored and is not applied as a filter. State that finished input and the CLI remain strict, and that a non-prefix or no-longer-final value remains an error.

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Comment thread src/Bws.Core/Querying/QueryParser.cs Outdated
The scanner takes the quotes away, so status:"r" reached the typing
tolerance as status:r and was passed over - a value somebody finished by
closing its quotes, dropped as though it were half typed. The tolerance
now also requires that the text does not end on a closing quote. An
unclosed quote never gets that far, and an escaped one leaves a value
that is the start of nothing, so the raw last character is enough.

The comment over StillBeingTyped carried an open question and it is
settled: the whole-of-the-value condition was written for
status:running,st, but that member reads running and becomes a term
before the tolerance is asked. What the condition really holds is
status:st, - a value somebody moved on from with a comma. The test now
names that case and the closed-quote cases.

The user changelog gains the entry for the tolerance itself, which
shipped without one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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