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Type search should prioritize exact matches

Open yrp604 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

What is the feature you'd like to have? Imagine I have two types added to a bndb: FOO and BAR_FOO. If I search for FOO in the type view, I will see in order BAR_FOO, FOO. With two types this is not a problem, but for complex targets its not uncommon to have hundreds of matching types, especially when types are imported from pdb/dwarf.

The current logic seems to be alphabetical sorting of all substring matches. I'd propose exact match first, followed by the existing logic.

Is your feature request related to a problem? If there are many types, finding a match even when you know the exact name is needlessly cumbersome.

Are any alternative solutions acceptable? Sure

yrp604 avatar Sep 08 '22 04:09 yrp604