Prefix Matching? about tofi

[philj56]

Interesting, that sounds like a nice idea (I nearly always search by just typing the beginning of the thing I'm looking for).

I think this probably should be combined with #49, and --fuzzy-match replaced with --matching-algorithm. This is also how rofi does it e.g. from the manpage:

-matching method

Specify the matching algorithm used.  Currently, the following methods
are supported:
       • normal: match the int string
       • regex: match a regex input
       • glob: match a glob pattern
       • fuzzy: do a fuzzy match
       • prefix: match prefix

I guess the tofi version would look like:

--matching-algorithm = normal | fuzzy | levenshtein | prefix

Tab completion of results also sounds interesting, but that would probably have to wait until (if) I make keybindings customisable.

[LordTlasT]

Yes, this would be really neat.
Can't wait for it to be implemented :)
Thanks for the response, I hope it goes well.

[philj56]

Alright, this is done (without tab completion) in 574eff0. Sorry for the delay, I spent a while implementing Levenshtein distance, only to decide it isn't really any good for tofi 😅.

If you want to try it out from the AUR btw, there's a tofi-git package as well as the release package.