Fuzzy search for function names in functions panel
Would be nice 🙂 I also always assume that it works like this and only remember after my fuzzy query fails.
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Thank you!
Thanks for the suggestion! Can you share an example or two of what string you'd want to match which functions, and by what criteria?
1. I have a lot of functions that are namespaced/nested in folders, like this:
namespaceOne/namespaceTwo/fileOne:myFunction. They may even have similar names, such that (for example) there's another function like this: namespaceThree/namespaceFour/fileTwo:myFunction. So it's easier for me to pull up the exact function I'm looking for if I can first type something like namespaceThree followed by myFunction, for a final query that looks like namespaceThreemyFunction
2. Sometimes I don't remember the name of the exact function I'm looking for, but I remember which, say, top-level namespace it's in. In this case it's helpful to start by typing the name of that namespace, and then to try out different terms from there (to effectively search within that namespace).Thanks! Yeah this is what i'd want too, similar to how search works with CmdP in vscode
jinx
Tom, wanna rock paper scissors for who gets to build this? 😛
I'm already shopping for npm libraries
fuzzy seems like it accomplishes this and is pretty popular, also reasonable bundle size (https://bundlephobia.com/package/fuzzy@0.1.3)fuzzy v0.1.3 ❘ Bundlephobia
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yes that is exactly what I want 😄
https://github.com/farzher/fuzzysort looks good too for directory path-link items like we have
GitHub
GitHub - farzher/fuzzysort: Fast SublimeText-like fuzzy search for ...
Fast SublimeText-like fuzzy search for JavaScript. - farzher/fuzzysort
ha, i thought the
fuzzy package would implement edit-distance or something, but it's looping through strings comparing each character, adding matches. makes sense too and is simpler https://github.com/mattyork/fuzzy/blob/master/lib/fuzzy.js#L57-L70GitHub
fuzzy/lib/fuzzy.js at master · mattyork/fuzzy
Filters a list based on a fuzzy string search. Contribute to mattyork/fuzzy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hmm, what's the difference between the two tom? Also I just remembered we also match on the source code of functions. I wonder if we should just remove that functionality because it's not super standard and we probably search entire modules which means false positives
fuzzysort seems to do some heuristics like "the letters you typed are probably at the beginning of path components that you're looking for
https://rawgit.com/farzher/fuzzysort/master/test/test.html
before it falls back to "yeah those letters are in there in order"
7.5kB though, hard to argue with that elegant for loop
hehe yeah this looks cool but i'd personally lean towards something simpler / more easily explainable. no strong preference. Anyway, RJ, apologies for nerding out in here. One of us will likely ship this feature request this week 🙂
Haha don't apologize, looking forward to it!
@RJ it's out
It works beautifully, but I realize now I wasn't clear enough about where precisely my desire for this arose—I was referring to the "Run functions" pop-out panel, not the page/tab
Sorry 🤦♂️
ah lol, i thought you meant for the file directory! yeah we can do that there too, stay tuned
New version shipped
I’ve already gotten use out of it! Thank you!
Makes a big difference