Option to disable Fuzzy search, it's making Ctrl+R search useless
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area:search
enhancement
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 65.1k
- Forks
- 5.6k
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Description
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Describe the solution you'd like?
A search that matches everything matches nothing ☯️
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
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Additional context
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How important is this feature to you?
1 (Not too important)
Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:39cc6478-1249-4ee7-950b-c428edfeecd1
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the Ctrl+R search entry point and trace how fuzzy matching is applied. Determine how an opt-out setting should be exposed and persisted, then verify that disabling fuzzy search makes exact or narrower searches usable while the default behavior remains unchanged.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100