I’ve been using Geany with patches whereby typeahead search in the symbols list and in TreeBrowser uses g_str_match_string instead of simply matching by prefix.

Now, when I type “ba”, it finds not just bar but also foo_bar and foo-bar, etc. (not FooBar though).

It’s convenient.

The change itself is simple (all the heavy lifting is in GTK+/GLib), but I’m pretty sure this behavior cannot be made the default, as it might cause too many false positives, and would break habits.

What do you think of having such a feature as an option?

If suitable, what do you think its granularity should be? Should it be a checkbox for every tree view where it makes sense, like “Use fuzzy search in symbols list”, “Use fuzzy search in documents list” and so on?

(Also, I’m not sure it should be just g_str_match_string. Maybe typing “ba” should find FooBar as well. Maybe typing “fb” should find foo_bar, like in Commander.)

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