textual.fuzzy

Fuzzy matcher.

This class is used by the command palette to match search terms.

Matcher

Matcher(query, *, match_style=None, case_sensitive=False)

A fuzzy matcher.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
query	str	A query as typed in by the user.	required
match_style	Style | None	The style to use to highlight matched portions of a string.	None
case_sensitive	bool	Should matching be case sensitive?	False

case_sensitive property

case_sensitive

Is this matcher case sensitive?

match_style property

match_style

The style that will be used to highlight hits in the matched text.

query property

query

The query string to look for.

query_pattern property

query_pattern

The regular expression pattern built from the query.

highlight

highlight(candidate)

Highlight the candidate with the fuzzy match.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
candidate	str	The candidate string to match against the query.	required

Returns:

Type	Description
Text	A [rich.text.Text][Text] object with highlighted matches.

match

match(candidate)

Match the candidate against the query.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
candidate	str	Candidate string to match against the query.	required

Returns:

Type	Description
float	Strength of the match from 0 to 1.