Make it easier to deduce where a file belongs in the palette

[madprops]

I often change between backend and frontend files.

These can be javascript files for instance.

And they can have the same name.

The problem I have is that it's not obvious which file to pick when using the palette, because they are very similar, and the only differentiator is the path, which I have to check to know which one to pick.

For example:

What I need is something that gives me feedback that the file might be from the sockets dir or from the frontend dir. This would reduce picking time from ~1 second to near instant.

I'm not sure how you would do this, but a way is using jdenticon.

Each location, like ...server/sockets/modules would have its own icon.

The icons are always the same based on the text (the path).

Or you could do something with colors and text effects.

But I hope you see what i'm talking about.

[albertosantini]

It mitigates the UX if you add to the search string something unique in the path for that file: soc mod or pub mod.

My two cents.

[madprops]

It mitigates the UX if you add to the search string something unique in the path for that file: soc mod or pub mod.

My two cents.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think it doesn't work in the file search palette:

[albertosantini]

In CTRL-P? Here the fuzzy search works.

Try mod soc or similar.

[madprops]

This palette: ctrl + p, maybe I have to enable fuzzy search somewhere.

[albertosantini]

It works by default.