Why is the default -x and not -e?
chimak111 opened this issue · 2 comments
In line 274, why is -x preferred?
fzf --ansi +s -x -d '\034' --nth ..3 --with-nth 3 \
Wouldn't
fzf --ansi +s -e -d '\034' --nth ..3 --with-nth 3
give quicker and cleaner results?
Hm, this really takes me back. I do recall giving this some thought. This is 100% personal preference, but I prefer being able to quickly enter kpm to adress something like "KDE Partition Manager" which would not be possible in exact mode. At the same time, you're free to type in exact search queries and fzf will most probably get you there in extended mode as well.
That said, I do intend to offer some way to add customization for fzf's behaviour in the future when I find the time to work on reading a config file again.
Thank you for responding! You presented an aspect that I didn't consider at all. I'm used to krunner, rofi, and wofi, which all use exact matches, AFAICT, and so I had to do a bit of head-scratching (solved by reading the man page).
Instead of working out customization options, it maybe easier to just put a note in the README.md covering this aspect.