[racket-dev] Potential search improvement

Three hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > Just now, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> >> 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.
> [...]
> 
> Getting away from the discussion on sorting speed, I don't think my
> suggestion even requires sorting: just add a 1.5 for
> match-all-subword-parts-to-whole-id.

That won't work, since "current-line-sep" will have the all-subword
match for both entries.  The first one is whatever comes first in the
alphabetically sorted index.  You can see the same problem with a
search for "current sep line".

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