Fuzzy search for symbols

[edditler]

In Sublime Text the goto symbol feature allows for fuzzy searching. So if I'm looking for subroutine this_amazing_routine the following search terms will all find it:

• thisamazingroutine
• tar
• thisar
• tish_amazngi
• and so on...

In VSCode - as I understand it - this would be supported if the language server does (microsoft/vscode#33746). This appears to already be implemented in the python-language-server (microsoft/python-language-server#697) so I hope this shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Would this be an appreciated feature? I don't have any experience with the LSP but would be willing to look into it unless someone else already has this on their roadmap.

[JHenneberg]

So you mean as an auto complete feature when you are not sure about the routines name? Sounds pretty good for me. For now I am using the VSC symbol search or overall search but this would be different level of convenience.

[edditler]

One case is when I'm unsure or when I make a typo. The most annoying for me personally is underscores in the routine names. It would be quicker to skip those in the search.

Just to make sure that I'm not missing something (I'm using ST keybinding. Not sure if those are VSC defaults too)

• "Go to file" (CMD+T) to search for files by name is fuzzy
• "Go to symbol in editor" (CMD+R) to look for a routine inside an open file is fuzzy
• "Go to symbol in workspace" (CMD+Shift+R) to look for a routine in the whole project is not fuzzy, so you are not allowed to skip characters or mistype

The last one is provided by fortran-language-server, right?

[edditler]

I just realized: the autocomplete is already fine in this regard. It seems like only the global Go to symbol would be affected.

[JHenneberg]

The functions you mentioned are provided by VCS itself correct and supporting fuzzy search.
I thought you were talking about autocompletion while programming. For example you are using a module and you are not sure about the implemented and public available functions. In this case autocompletion has no fuzzy search and is provided by the language-server or extension I think. This would be definetly a big improvement.