Add new tiebreak: 'chunk'

Favors the line with shorter matched chunk. A chunk is a set of
consecutive non-whitespace characters.

Unlike the default `length`, this new scheme works well with tabular input.

  # length prefers item #1, because the whole line is shorter,
  # chunk prefers item #2, because the matched chunk ("foo") is shorter
  fzf --height=6 --header-lines=2 --tiebreak=chunk --reverse --query=fo << "EOF"
  N | Field1 | Field2 | Field3
  - | ------ | ------ | ------
  1 | hello  | foobar | baz
  2 | world  | foo    | bazbaz
  EOF

If the input does not contain any spaces, `chunk` is equivalent to
`length`. But we're not going to set it as the default because it is
computationally more expensive.

Close #2285
Close #2537
- Not the exact solution to --tiebreak=length not taking --nth into account,
  but this should work. And the added benefit is that it works well even
  when --nth is not provided.
- Adding a bonus point to the last character of a word didn't turn out great.
  The order of the result suddenly changes when you type in the last
  character in the word producing a jarring effect.
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Junegunn Choi
2022-08-02 13:44:55 +09:00
parent c3a7a24eea
commit f0bfeba733
7 changed files with 81 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -9,13 +9,30 @@ CHANGELOG
- Word after whitespace characters or beginning of the string
- Word after common delimiter characters (`/,:;|`)
- Word after other non-word characters
````sh
```sh
# foo/bar.sh` is preferred over `foo-bar.sh` on `bar`
fzf --query bar --height 4 << EOF
fzf --query=bar --height=4 << EOF
foo-bar.sh
foo/bar.sh
EOF
```
- Added a new tiebreak `chunk`
- Favors the line with shorter matched chunk. A chunk is a set of
consecutive non-whitespace characters.
- Unlike the default `length`, this scheme works well with tabular input
```sh
# length prefers item #1, because the whole line is shorter,
# chunk prefers item #2, because the matched chunk ("foo") is shorter
fzf --height=6 --header-lines=2 --tiebreak=chunk --reverse --query=fo << "EOF"
N | Field1 | Field2 | Field3
- | ------ | ------ | ------
1 | hello | foobar | baz
2 | world | foo | bazbaz
EOF
```
- If the input does not contain any spaces, `chunk` is equivalent to
`length`. But we're not going to set it as the default because it is
computationally more expensive.
- Bug fixes and improvements
0.31.0