[feature request] show me score break-down for item

[mackal]

This would be really cool, would help with tweaking the heuristics.  Is there such a function?  If not, then pretty please please please!    Occasionally I don't like the sorting that comes out and I'd love to know why it came out the way it did...  Seems technically simple, and could be simply a new option in the context menu that you get when you right click on a result item.

[mouser]

it's a fun idea for sure, i've thought of it myself. unfortunately it's not so trivial to add and not suffer a performance penalty.  not something i can add for now.

[mackal]

Really?  Too bad, would have been useful.  I assume that by overhead you mean the need to store for each result item the full scouring source information and such.  But perhaps when "show score break-down" is clicked, the search can be *rerun*, and as it progresses this time around the more expensive code path is chosen, the one which notes all the details.  That way things would be fast and lean during normal operation, as usual, and the extra load is only incurred on an introspective run through the search...  Just a thought; in all likelihood this approach is not even viable, I don't really know what the control flow of FARR is during its searches.  But hey, I can wish.

[jacemdom]

it's a fun idea for sure, i've thought of it myself. unfortunately it's not so trivial to add and not suffer a performance penalty.  not something i can add for now.

I don't see why it should cause a performance penalty. The break-down could only be triggered when selecting the option from item context menu and not have to be calculated or kept in memory for all items.

[jacemdom]

And this would be really useful in debugging the scoring rules...very very useful 

Did i mention very very very useful!