Re: handling many matches

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.05.2020 21:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Relevance to input, for example.
> >
> > But how will we determine it, you will ask? For instance, by seeing
> > where the search words are in the each listed name. If they are close to
> > the beginning, assign higher scores.
> You are still thinking about what our fuzzy completion does.  That's
> not how you get scores that are relevant for the user, because how
> close the hit is to what the user typed is mostly irrelevant.

It's rarely 100% irrelevant. Or else that would mean we have some 
nonsensical names.

But apparently you have some other algorithm in mind. Though I don't 
know what it is.