Searching mods by their abbreviation / alternate names

[mongoose11235813]

Is it possible to make a search capable of finding mods by their abbreviations? E.g. Kerbal Attachment System - KAS, Kerbal Inventory System - KIS and so on.
Some people don't even know/remember whole names of mods because everyone on forums uses abbreviations instead.

[mheguy]

A full implementation would require a new metadata field (probably inside resources) to list alternate names. A much more 'cheaty' (but incomplete) implementation would be adding the alternate names in parentheses to the existing name field.

[Dazpoet]

One might also consider making the "provides" field searchable seeing as some mods acctually have that one. When I first started ckanning I remember thinking it weird that I couldn't search for FAR or NEAR when clearly their metadata include those as alternate names.

[HebaruSan]

GUI already does this by pre-calculating the abbreviations:

CKAN/GUI/GUIMod.cs

Lines 242 to 243 in 8746077

	Abbrevation = new string(mod.name.Split(' ').
	Where(s => s.Length > 0).Select(s => s[0]).ToArray());

CKAN/GUI/MainModList.cs

Lines 745 to 750 in 8746077

	private bool IsNameInNameFilter(GUIMod mod)
	{
	return mod.Name.IndexOf(ModNameFilter, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != -1
	|| mod.Abbrevation.IndexOf(ModNameFilter, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != -1
	|| mod.Identifier.IndexOf(ModNameFilter, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != -1;
	}

Closing as fixed by #1430.