Hi Bram, On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 3:31 AM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yegappan wrote: > > > 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. > > :vimgrep was made to find matches and skip non-matches, it hasn't been > used for using a match score. Thus I think that's how it should keep > working by default. > > In some cases the sorting by score could be useful. Can we sort after > :vimgrep has finished? Or would it need to be another flag or extra > flag? >
We will need to add another flag to sort the fuzzy matches by score. What about using the flag 's' for sort? Regards, Yegappan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAAW7x7kx7%2BhwhAQyFjURbQ%3DcDb1M24LOVZFkgcddbzfb3YnycA%40mail.gmail.com.
