Can Search support fuzzy finder on filepath?

[mbailey]

I'm used to opening my markdown files in bash, VSCode, Obsidian using a fuzzy finder on the file path and name.

For example, I could usually find:

/notes/customers/examplecorp/onboarding/README.md

with:

`nocuexonr`

I noticed MkDocs search doesn't seem to support this? Am I missing something? My fingers are used to using this to access files.

[squidfunk]

Theoretically, yes, we're using the same logic for our icon search. However, the behavior is fundamentally different from the document search, and I'm not sure how both should co-exist. if you want to see this in Material for MkDocs, a next step would be to write a detailed proposal/draft how you'd expect this to work and how it would integrate with existing features.

[mbailey]

Maybe a small step would be to include tokens from location in the search index?

I created a page called dachshund.md without that word in the body of the page and searching for dachshund turned up no results.

That's probably reasonable given the word wasn't in the body, however, boosting tokens from the file path and file name in search results would be consistent with how Google SEO works. Having the word in the filename would be a strong relevance indicator.

I had a look at search/_/index.ts but haven't yet worked out if there is an easy way to include filename and filepath in the index.

[squidfunk]

Note that we're actively considering adding this functionality as part of the new search ☺️ You may subscribe to #6307.

[mbailey]

Note that we're actively considering adding this functionality as part of the new search ☺️ You may subscribe to #6307.

Thanks for sharing the update Martin! :-)