[racket-dev] Potential search improvement

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>
> ** More about the change (especially if you want to try to improve
>   things):
>
> This is not real ranking, but it should give better results overall.
> The thing is that the search assigns a small integer "score" for each
> term, where the scores are (roughly)
>
>  0 no match,
>  1 match-all-subword-parts,
>  2 contains a match,
>  3 matches a prefix,
>  4 exact match.

I think you probably want to rank/divide '1' here based on how much of
the identifier is matched by the search.  For example, if you search
for 'current-sep-line', you probably want 'current-line-sep' first,
but currently you get 'current-alist-line-sep' first.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu