Prevent search terms to have overlap in fuzzy matching

gwenzek commented 4 years ago

Problem description

If you search command palette for pack remov package then the current results are:

package control: remove channel
package control: remove repository
package control: remove package

As you can see the pack and package search term both match the same part of the target command.

Preferred solution

I think it'd be more natural if the results was showing only one of:

package control: remove package
package control: remove package

Here pack and package are matched to non overlapping part of the command (order isn't important for me, since that's why I use search term)

Alternatives

Maybe those should be allowed to, but with lower ranking since they have a smaller match:

package control: remove channel
package control: remove repository

Additional Information (optional)

Note that searching for pack removpackage returns the desired results, but I've grown generous with spaces since they have been introduced because they generally provide more matches. (Is it File: rename or Rename File ?

TerminalFi commented 4 years ago

Interesting catch, for a visual example, even spelling out the exact match.

michaelblyons commented 4 years ago

This typically gets me when I paste .sublime-syntax content to a new window, and the YAML first-line-match set the syntax to YAML. The next thing I try to do is Cmd+Shift+P syn sub syn, looking for PackageDev's "Set Syntax: Sublime Text Syntax Definition (YAML)" but what I get is

with the desired result waaaaay down there below the cutoff.

Edit: Thanks to @gwenzek's first post, though, now I know I can search for synsyn with no spaces and find it successfully.

sublimehq / sublime_text