-- variable input: search term
-- variable snippets: array with all snippets (as delivered by http://tinybrain.de:8080/tb-int/allsnippets.php)
-- returns: array of matching snippets
--   best matches first (well, smarter search engines would do that)
--
-- if we also get the snippet texts, we will match those too.
-- but that is a lot of data...

found = {}
foundLevelTwo = {}

input = input:lower()
for _, s in ipairs(snippets.snippets) do
  if s.name:lower():find(input, 1, true) or s.id == input or ("#"..s.id) == input then
    table.insert(found, s)
  elseif s.text and s.text:lower():find(input, 1, true) then
    table.insert(foundLevelTwo, s)
  end
end

-- merge two lists
for _, s in ipairs(foundLevelTwo) do table.insert(found, s) end

-- return
return found

TODO: changes case of snippet names according to input (wtf?)