--tiebreak ignores -n

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Thank you for fzf. It is one of those tools you can no longer live without, once it has infected your brain.

printf '%s\n' 'a looooooooong' 'aaa short' | fzf -n1

Type a after invoking fzf as above. The aaa short item is selected, even though -n has supposedly limited search scope to the first field (a vs aaa).

It seems that tie-breaking settings ignore -n. Is this a bug? #926 looks to be related.

■ fzf --version
0.18.0 (6577388)

[vovcacik]

For query a, its a tie for both lines. The default tiebreak is based on length criterion.

What you do: printf '%s\n' 'a looooooooong' 'aaa short' | fzf -n1 --tiebreak=length what you want: printf '%s\n' 'a looooooooong' 'aaa short' | fzf -n1 --tiebreak=index