Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The support for searching for fuzzy matches with the
> vimgrep command was recently added (8.2.2813).
>
> In the current implementation, each line in a specified file(s)
> is compared against the supplied search string (fuzzy match)
> and if there is a match, then the line is added to the
> quickfix list.
>
> The matches are not sorted by the fuzzy match score. So the
> line that has the best match for the supplied string may be
> present later in the quickfix list.
>
> Should we order the matches by the fuzzy match score so that
> the best matches show up earlier in the quickfix list? One
> downside to this approach is that the entries in the quickfix
> list will not be sorted by the file name and the line number
> and they will be mixed across files.
>
> - Yegappan
It's not so clear to me in which cases I will use fuzzy :vimgrep.
The results are often unclear as to why they match.
I did this for example in Vim:
:cd vim/src
:vimgrep /message/f *.c
I get results like this:
arglist.c|20 col 38| // This flag is set whenever the argument list is
being changed and calling a
At first I expected to find a word that looked like "message"
but that's not the case. I think this line matches because it
matches /m.*e.*s.*s.*a.*g.*e/
This kind of fuzzy matching makes more sense to me when:
- it's sorted by score (as you suggest)
- and there is some visual feedback (highlighting of what matches)
to help understand why it matches, as done e.g by
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim
Regards
Dominique
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