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Fuzzy Finder in rust!
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skim doesn't search like fzf #414

Open MarkuBu opened 3 years ago

MarkuBu commented 3 years ago

If I compare skim and fzf I see amajor differences. If I enter a search pattern fzf finds what I expect, skim does not

For example: I have the nerd-fonts in my Downloads folder. Inside is a package.json file. If I run fzf with no arguments and enter "dow ne pa" I have a perfect hit. If I do the same in skim I'm not even close to a hit

Another example: I have a clone of QMK with my own layout named PUQ for the atreus42. If I enter "atre key puq" in fzf the first highlighted file is the keymap.c. The same pattern in skim highlights a file that doesn't even contain "key"

Konfekt commented 3 years ago

To summarize: Though the matching algorithm of skim, for each line piped to it, prioritizes matches at the beginning of each token (separated by slashes /, say), among the search string tokens (separated by blanks) it prioritizes the first token only, not the following ones.

Konfekt commented 3 years ago

This is in contrast to fzf and peco, but seems similar to fzy.