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It was actually me that suggested to the TextMate guy to do the fuzzy lookup in this way: matching significant characters in side the search term. AFAIK Sublim

It was actually me that suggested to the TextMate guy to do the fuzzy lookup in this way: matching significant characters in side the search term. AFAIK Sublime, Ctrl-P and friends all followed and improved from TextMate's version. It was originally a feature in LaunchBar which was on NextStep and was ported to OS X [1] QuickSilver and Spotlight were also influenced by LaunchBar. [1] http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/legacy.html http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/legacy.html

sorbits 13y ago
If you’re the same felix as the comment author of the following comment, then it seems you meant to suggest it, but never did: LaunchBar style file opening ! You are a god ! I was going to suggest this as a feature. You have saved us thousands of boring hours clicking on triangles. Source: http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comment-27 http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comm... The feature in LaunchBar was btw an evolution of the LaunchBar author having a dozen shell scripts (or aliases) a la “ps=open -a PhotoShop” that he called from a terminal to quickly open his various applications and then later realized it could be automated.
- crucialfelix 13y ago
  He wrote command t and then when I tried it I suggested doing the multi word matching trick. To the best of my memory, could be misremembering. i had some back and forth with him about it and he revised it to its current state. 8 years ago, yikes.
johncoltrane 13y ago
I was talking with someone on #vim about the history of that feature a few days ago. I traced it back to either Launchbar or Quicksilver and I'm glad I wasn't that far off the mark. As a side note, it's somehow funny how a sentence like "Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching" can tell quite a lot about the person who writes it. I'm not criticizing, of course, but well… I find it funny. That's all.

sorbits 13y ago

If you’re the same felix as the comment author of the following comment, then it seems you meant to suggest it, but never did: LaunchBar style file opening ! You are a god ! I was going to suggest this as a feature. You have saved us thousands of boring hours clicking on triangles. Source: http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comment-27 http://blog.macromates.com/2005/elevating-the-standard/#comm... The feature in LaunchBar was btw an evolution of the LaunchBar author having a dozen shell scripts (or aliases) a la “ps=open -a PhotoShop” that he called from a terminal to quickly open his various applications and then later realized it could be automated.

crucialfelix 13y ago
He wrote command t and then when I tried it I suggested doing the multi word matching trick. To the best of my memory, could be misremembering. i had some back and forth with him about it and he revised it to its current state. 8 years ago, yikes.

johncoltrane 13y ago

I was talking with someone on #vim about the history of that feature a few days ago. I traced it back to either Launchbar or Quicksilver and I'm glad I wasn't that far off the mark. As a side note, it's somehow funny how a sentence like "Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching" can tell quite a lot about the person who writes it. I'm not criticizing, of course, but well… I find it funny. That's all.