fuzzy-matching in quickopen...

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

On Freitag, 16. September 2022 16:25:15 CEST Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> 1. After filtering, why should open files always end up at top? This
> is not an "already open files quickopen". If the filter matches
> something else better that will end up at top. There might be cases
> where an openfile is a better match, perhaps there is a way to improve
> that without biasing 100% in favour of open files.

>From what I remember this started as a "already open files quickopen", and just 
later on got extended to also show files which are not open yet. This was 
great.
You are asking why the files which are already open should be at the top:
my typical use case (working as a software developer for many years now 
already, basically always using kate) is that I open a bunch of interesting 
files, and then switch between those files very often. From time to time a new 
file joins the round, but this is much less often.
Currently I'm working on a project where a source tree consists of several 
thousand files. The fuzzy match very often finds something different than what I 
wanted, and I know I typed the 3 or 4 characters correctly.
I know in these cases that the file I want to go to is among the probably 10, 
or maybe 20 files I looked at before, so the quickopen saved me from searching 
that file manually in the top of the list. Now I start typing and seemingly 
random files appear at the top, and I have to scroll down to find the file.

Maybe sorting by the score is (at least for the open files) not such a good 
idea. I would prefer if the order of the files would actually stay the same, 
and by typing it would just filter files out from that.
 
> 2. Match in sequence will take precedence once you have typed 4 or
> more letters. With 3 or less letters, we can't be sure if that is a
> sequence or an abbreviation. e.g., ftv will prefer "FilesTreeView"
> over "abcftv.js"
> 
> 3. That is correct and working as expected.

Ok. Are you sure this is a better behaviour ?

> Quickopen is not meant to filter already open files. For that, you
> have other plugins that can do the job.

which ? I thought that's what quickopen is for, really. At least it was until 
a year ago.

Sorry, probably my mail sounds a bit negative, but I really just want to make 
sure kate is working well :-)
For the conrete example, I think  should not post the file names from my day 
job.

Thanks
Alex