Sorting when buffer switching

[danielfleischer]

Hi, why wouldn't consult-buffer support sorting, especially when used with orderless or similar? This could be a massive qol improvement, at least consider it customizable.

consult/consult.el

Line 4645 in d84bbc1

:sort nil)))

[danielfleischer]

Compared with consult-outline, consult-line or consult-grep, which have an inherent ordering to results, when you switch buffers and you have files, buffers, bookmarks, you might want ordering that is based on history/usage, e.g. using vertico. Setting :sort t let you do that or at least offer this option to the user, as vertico integration is probably assumed. Results are unordered, even if you have vertico set to sort by history, if :sort nil.

EDIT: vertico is doing the sorting, not orderless.

[minad]

In order to customize sorting use (consult-customize consult-buffer :sort t). Please let me know if this works. consult-buffer disables UI sorting by default since the entries already have an inherent order. Buffers are sorted by recency of usage. Furthermore by disabling sorting we make sure that the order of the sources is preserved, which is usually also desired.

[danielfleischer]

Thanks, that solution sets the option and it works. I don't know about buffer sorting, but there is a clear difference when setting this sort=true, for the better, maybe it is my config. Thanks!