Limit search by delimiter (e.g. slashes between directories)

[Pistos]

• Category
  • [x] fzf binary
  • [ ] fzf-tmux script
  • [ ] Key bindings
  • [ ] Completion
  • [ ] Vim
  • [ ] Neovim
  • [ ] Etc.
• OS
  • [x] Linux
  • [x] Mac OS X
  • [ ] Windows
  • [ ] Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • [ ] Etc.
• Shell
  • [x] bash
  • [x] zsh
  • [ ] fish

My feature request is probably best explained by an example. Given the following lines:

app/models/foo/bar/baz.rb
app/models/foo/bar-baz.rb
app/models/foo-bar-baz.rb
app/monsters/dungeon/foo/bar/baz.rb

(Using the default fuzzy searching mode), if I type app/mod/fo/ba/baz, I want fzf to filter down to app/models/foo/bar/baz.rb, and not include any of the others.

In other words, if I know in my head the dir structure of my project, and I want to get at a file that is under a specific subtree in the repo, I want to be able to use slashes to trim fzf's result set.

As fzf is now, when I type app/mod, it matches both app/models and app/monsters/dungeon because the letters mo are in monsters and d is in dungeon.

[shedali]

some combination of -e (exact) -d (specify / as delimiter) and --with-nth to specify nesting level of the delimiter maybe what you are after? i.e. cat $filelist | fzf -e -d '/' --with-nth=5

[Pistos]

@shedali Thanks for your suggestion. I couldn't get it to do what I wanted, though.

[Pistos]

I can get close, but not quite, with fzf -n .. -d /. It still cuts across multiple directories.

[junegunn]

Closing as wontfix, because the matching algorithm of fzf is not specifically designed for file paths. Including app/monsters/dungeon in the result doesn't seem like a problem because it's ranked lower than the rest. And you can use exact matching by prefixing the term with '. e.g. 'app/mod f--