Fuzzy search results are not prioritized well.

[thekashifmalik]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.17.1 (1e9d365, 2017-10-10T14:10:17.189Z)
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I use fuzzy search a lot and after switching to vscode I'm noticing that it's rare for the target file to appear in the top 3 results. It's almost always 10 or 15 results down. Sublime fuzzy search works well as does my setup in vim (using FZF).

Is there a point in having vscode re-invent the wheel and maintain it's own algorithm? Would it be possible to re-use other open source libraries such as FZF?

OSS FTW

Reproduces without extensions: Yes

[roblourens]

Can you provide some examples that don't work well?

[thekashifmalik]

Sure. In the Django codebase when looking for the file django/core/signals.py I type djan co sig.

On vscode the results are far down:

On vim (using FZF) it's the first hit:

In sublime it is also the first result.

[bpasero]

@thekashifmalik did a little bit of tweaks here for our 1.18 insider build, can you grab it and see if your examples work any better? You can give our preview releases a try from: https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

[bpasero]

I see the challenge for the scorer here is that there are good camelcase matches on the path portion:

They will cause a much higher boost compared to the relatively short matches here:

[bpasero]

Fixed via 9d40f0c

[thekashifmalik]

Nice, this is working much better on insiders!