import type { CategorySearchHit } from "../catalog/search.js";
import type { UseCategoryCatalogOptions } from "../model/queries.js";
export interface UseCategorySearchOptions extends UseCategoryCatalogOptions {
    /**
     * Resolve a translation key to a caption, so the match runs against what the
     * person can READ. Category names arrive as translation keys
     * (`catalog/labels.ts`); without this, "phones" matches nothing on a
     * catalogue whose rows say `category.phones`, and the honest fallback is to
     * match the key.
     */
    readonly translate?: (key: string) => string;
    /** Path prefix for a hit's link. Default `/c`. */
    readonly basePath?: string;
    /** Cap on the number of hits. Default `CATEGORY_SEARCH_LIMIT`. */
    readonly limit?: number;
}
/**
 * Categories matching `query`, ranked and capped.
 *
 * Returns an ARRAY, not a `LoadState`, and that is deliberate: this is a
 * secondary hint above somebody else's results, and "the catalogue is still
 * syncing" has the same correct rendering as "nothing matched" — nothing.
 * A skin that wanted to say more would be adding a second load story to a
 * screen that already has one.
 *
 * ```tsx
 * const hits = useCategorySearch(q, { translate: useT() });
 * <CategorySearchHits query={q} hits={hits} linkComponent={Link} />
 * ```
 */
export declare function useCategorySearch(query: string, options?: UseCategorySearchOptions): readonly CategorySearchHit[];
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