`IPython.terminal.shortcuts.auto_suggest:NavigableAutoSuggestFromHistory._find_match`

Signature

def _find_match(self, text: str, skip_lines: float, history: History, previous: bool) → Generator[tuple[str, float], None, None]

text: Text content to find a match for, the user cursor is most of the time at the end of this text.
skip_lines: number of items to skip in the search, this is used to indicate how far in the list the user has navigated by pressing up or down. The float type is used as the base value is +inf
history: prompt_toolkit History instance to fetch previous entries from.
previous: Direction of the search, whether we are looking previous match (True), or next match (False).

: Tuple with:
: str:: current suggestion.
: float:: will actually yield only ints, which is passed back via skip_lines, which may be a +inf (float)