Hi, On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:44 AM Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Fuzzy matching using vimgrep is useful, when you are searching for multiple partial words which can occur in any order. But I agree that it will be more useful to sort the matches by score so that the best matches will be listed first. > > 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/ > Yes. But note that the best match within a line is used and the column is set to the first matching character. > > 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 > Thanks, 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/CAAW7x7%3DAkhBBT2cw7xA-zGauMLvY%3DGKNbkzLU5bF0scam02ZNg%40mail.gmail.com.
