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Command Palette doesn't prioritize intuitively-best match #134016

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gjsjohnmurray opened this issue Sep 28, 2021 · 2 comments
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Command Palette doesn't prioritize intuitively-best match #134016

gjsjohnmurray opened this issue Sep 28, 2021 · 2 comments
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gjsjohnmurray commented Sep 28, 2021

Issue Type: Bug

  • Open Command Palette
  • Type open settings json
  • Be surprised that the desired command (Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)) isn't first

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Even better would be if merely typing p o s j or posj surfaced it at the top of the list.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.61.0-insider (214ac68, 2021-09-28T05:18:06.850Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
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bpasero commented Sep 29, 2021

/duplicate #1964

Adding fuzzy search to commands can break muscle memory: we keep results in strict alphabetic order to keep commands together that are belonging together and have a stable sorting order. The feature to put recently used commands to the top was built as a way to help for these cases.

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