Fzf: Feature request: allow sorting by file "distance"

[sitaktif]

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It would be great to have a feature that sorts files by "distance" to the current directory. By distance I mean "how many directory changes are needed to be in that file's directory".

Examples of distance values:

• otherfile1 --> 0
• otherdir1/otherfile2 --> 1
• ../otherfile3 --> 1
• ../otherdir2/otherfile4 --> 2

The implementation could be quite simple: take the number of slashes in the path as the distance.

This would be quite useful when called from an editor when one wants to open a file that is close to the currently edited file.

[wookayin]

See https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim/issues/788, #1380, and https://github.com/jonhoo/proximity-sort

[junegunn]

Thanks @wookayin!