How to order by shortest match?

[palsivertsen]

Is there any way to configure the ordering of results?

I use the ALT-C shortcut in bash to quickly navigate my folders. However, for certain paths (seems to be related to -), I get weird suggestions to my queries.

Example
I have the following directory structure:

$ tree
.
├── another-project
│   └── with
│       └── a
│           └── sub
│               └── directory
│                   └── called
│                       └── myproject
└── my-project

9 directories, 0 files

... and I want to navigate to my-project, but I can't remember the exact name so I type myject and expect the my-project directory to rank highest, since it's the shortest match. However fzf ranks the folder I want last. This is especially annoying when I have lots of results and the directory I want is often not even on screen.

Even if I try to be more specific I do not get the correct result:

If it was sorted the other way around I could be more specific in my query to narrow the results.

[LangLangBart]

Have you tried setting FZF_ALT_C_OPTS¹ with options from the fzf man page, like --no-sort² or --tiebreak?

export FZF_ALT_C_OPTS="--no-sort --tiebreak=length,begin,index"

The maintainer is currently up in works and I am not too confident in my answer, he might weigh in when he comes back.
Alternative reading material: fzf: Search syntax | junegunn.choi.

Footnotes

1. GitHub - junegunn/fzf: 🌸 A command-line fuzzy finder ↩

2. Unexpected reordering when using --scheme=history · Issue #3645 · junegunn/fzf · GitHub ↩

[palsivertsen]

Those options is not what I'm looking for. I tried using the --no-sort option and sorting the results before calling fzf with something like this:

find -type d 2> /dev/null | sort | fzf --no-sort

Unsurprisingly the performance is bad and the result is not what I want.

I don't think this is related to tiebreaks either, it's about sorting the results. An option like this maybe:

--sort=begin,length

[lamyergeier]

fzf --tiebreak=chunk worked for me.

[palsivertsen]

fzf --tiebreak=chunk worked for me.

Did you do something different than me? Here's what I did: