Extended search syntax like fzf?

[jesseleite]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In fzf, one thing I do quite a bit is narrow down the search either by:

• Providing multiple fuzzy terms in my query (separated by spaces, ie. foo bar)
• Prefixing search term(s) with quote to ensure fzf searches non-fuzzy exact match of that term (ie. 'model)

Describe the solution you'd like

I think fzf's extended search syntax is really elegant. Maybe gum filter could allow for multiple search terms, and at the very least a quote ' prefix for non-fuzzy exact match? 🙏

Describe alternatives you've considered

I realize --no-fuzzy already exists, but the benefit to the quote ' prefix is that the user can turn a search into a non-fuzzy search on-the-fly, if they happen to be searching for a word that they know they don't want fuzzy for. The --no-fuzzy flag is awesome, but requires that decision to be made by the running script instead of the end user.

Additional context

This is a good summary of fzf's "extended search" syntax

(Source: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax)

[jesseleite]

PS. Thank you all for your awesome open source work 🥰

[caarlos0]

the library we use currently doesn't support it, unfortunately.

see also #701 that might be related

[meowgorithm]

Just chiming in here: we're not opposed to supporting this if a contributor was willing to implement it, however the filtering algorithm should be improved first, so this is a bit of a long play.