Fuzzy search not scoring substring matches high enough?

[isavcic]

Hello,

I've noticed that the fuzzy search in some cases scores substring, contiguous matches lower than non-contiguous ones:

$ cat /tmp/testfzf
streamlink --player mpv --player-passthrough hls https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti best
ssh [email protected]

$ cat /tmp/testfzf | fzf --algo=v2 # and look up "tdoa"
top (selected) match: streamlink --player mpv --player-passthrough hls https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti best
second match: ssh [email protected]

Same happens with algo=v1. --exact fixes this, of course, but it turns off fuzzy search completely, which I need in some cases like when searching word1 word2 and the matching lines would be word1 a lot of other words word2.

Is this intended? If so, it is counterintuitive. When I'm searching for "tdoa", I want substring matches first, not where those characters are spread out:

Is this perhaps a bug?

Thanks.

[junegunn]

This should answer your question:

#4315 (comment)

[isavcic]

Got it. So every word prefixed with a single quote is treated as an exact substring when matching. Thanks!