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Aliases map a short keyword to any item in the list, e.g. ff → Firefox or term → Ghostty.

Behaviour

• When the query exactly matches an alias (case-insensitive), its target comes first, ahead of the fuzzy results, and isn't listed twice. Selecting it opens the item the usual way.
• If the alias only partly matches (ter for term), the target is added after the regular results.
• Targets are stored by a stable identity: the file path for apps and panes, cmd:<name> for $PATH programs, and the name only for anything else. Two items with the same name therefore don't collide, and the picker shows each item's folder. Aliases saved with only a name still resolve by name. If a target goes missing, the alias does nothing and Settings shows a warning next to it.
• Aliases are skipped for piped stdin menus (PipeListProvider).
• A new Aliases Settings tab lists aliases with edit and delete buttons. Adding or editing opens a sheet with a keyword field and a searchable list of the launcher's current items. Keywords can't be empty, can't contain spaces (<keyword> <query> is left free for search shortcuts) and must be unique. Aliases are saved to UserDefaults as Codable JSON.

Implementation
Most of the code is in new files: Aliases.swift (the model, the store and AliasSearchService, a subclass that wraps SearchService.search), AliasSettingsModel.swift and AliasSettingsView.swift. Changes to shared files are small: one line in SearchViewController (AliasSearchService.make(provider:)), a pane identifier and a pane entry in AppDelegate, plus a ListItem.providerData accessor in CompositeListProvider that reads the provider's own data without the routing tag. SearchService.swift is unchanged.

Testing

• New AliasSearchServiceTests (uses MockListProvider) covers exact-match ordering, case-insensitivity, no duplicates, fuzzy alias matches, missing targets, the empty query, piped mode and persistence.
• New AliasSettingsModelTests covers validation, saving, editing, deleting and missing targets.
• SettingsPanesTests has new checks for the Aliases pane.
• The alias store can be injected (AliasSearchService(provider:settings:), make(provider:settings:)). Under XCTest, AliasSettings.shared is an empty in-memory store, so tests never read real aliases. To check, I wrote aliases into the real com.onaips.dmenu-macos defaults, ran the full suite with no failures, then removed them.
• xcodebuild ... test: 238 tests, 0 failures. swiftlint --strict: 0 violations.

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