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diff runtime/doc/eval.txt @ 22232:f22acf6472da v8.2.1665
patch 8.2.1665: cannot do fuzzy string matching
Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/635414dd2f3ae7d4d972d79b806348a6516cb91a
Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Fri Sep 11 22:25:15 2020 +0200
patch 8.2.1665: cannot do fuzzy string matching
Problem: Cannot do fuzzy string matching.
Solution: Add matchfuzzy(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/6932)
| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:30:04 +0200 |
| parents | d4c7b3e9cd17 |
| children | 07e48ee8c3bb |
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--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -2641,6 +2641,7 @@ matcharg({nr}) List arguments of |:mat matchdelete({id} [, {win}]) Number delete match identified by {id} matchend({expr}, {pat} [, {start} [, {count}]]) Number position where {pat} ends in {expr} +matchfuzzy({list}, {str}) List fuzzy match {str} in {list} matchlist({expr}, {pat} [, {start} [, {count}]]) List match and submatches of {pat} in {expr} matchstr({expr}, {pat} [, {start} [, {count}]]) @@ -7307,6 +7308,29 @@ matchend({expr}, {pat} [, {start} [, {co Can also be used as a |method|: > GetText()->matchend('word') + +matchfuzzy({list}, {str}) *matchfuzzy()* + Returns a list with all the strings in {list} that fuzzy + match {str}. The strings in the returned list are sorted + based on the matching score. {str} is treated as a literal + string and regular expression matching is NOT supported. + The maximum supported {str} length is 256. + + If there are no matching strings or there is an error, then an + empty list is returned. If length of {str} is greater than + 256, then returns an empty list. + + Example: > + :echo matchfuzzy(["clay", "crow"], "cay") +< results in ["clay"]. > + :echo getbufinfo()->map({_, v -> v.name})->matchfuzzy("ndl") +< results in a list of buffer names fuzzy matching "ndl". > + :echo v:oldfiles->matchfuzzy("test") +< results in a list of file names fuzzy matching "test". > + :let l = readfile("buffer.c")->matchfuzzy("str") +< results in a list of lines in "buffer.c" fuzzy matching "str". + + matchlist({expr}, {pat} [, {start} [, {count}]]) *matchlist()* Same as |match()|, but return a |List|. The first item in the list is the matched string, same as what matchstr() would