Hoist exact matches to top of autocomplete suggestions

[user24]

For query "Bee", with data:

var suggestions = [{
    "value": "beetle"
},{
    "value": "beezlebub"
},{
    "value": "bee"
},{
    "value": "beet"
}]

Used to suggest:

beetle
beezlebub
bee
beet

now suggests:

bee
beetle
beezlebub
beet

Could be improved further but it's better than no sorting.

[user24]

Would actually be better to allow people to supply their own sort function, with something like this as the default, imho.

[tkirda]

You can actually provide your own lookup function where you can filter and sort results anyway you want.

Also it would make sense that sort function can be provided via options and optional.

[tkirda]

Thanks for this contribution, and apologies for the very long silence.

The project was dormant for several years and has just shipped v2.0, which is a ground-up TypeScript rewrite with a new build (esbuild), test runner (Vitest + jsdom), and CI pipeline. As a result this PR no longer applies cleanly against master, and the surrounding code it touches has changed enough that mechanically rebasing it wouldn't be safe.

I'm closing it as part of a triage pass on the long-stale PR backlog — not because the idea lacks merit. If this change is still valuable to you against 2.0, please open a fresh PR (or an issue first if you'd like to confirm direction); I'll review new submissions against the current codebase promptly.

Thanks again for taking the time.