Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> With the proposed API there is no way to know what portions of the
> input are matched.
>
> ```
> Example: >
> :echo matchfuzzy(['clay', 'crow'], "cay")
> < results in ['clay']. >
> ```
>
> It would be more useful to also return the start position and the end
> position of the match, similar to `matchstrpos()`:
>
> ```
> [
> ["clay",
> ["c", 0, 0],
> ["ay", 2, 3]
> ]
> ]
> ```
That makes it a lot more complex. What is the practical use for the
match positions?
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