Choosing longest or shortest alignment about edlib HOT 1 OPEN

@brendanf I am not 100% sure as it has been some time since I have implemented the core part of Edlib, but off the bat I would guess that is probably not easy to do. Edlib is fast because it is optimized to use edit distance as scoring mechanism, and adding any additional criteria, like for example to try and find minimal size of cigar, will almost certainly be hard to fit into that.
One thing you can do is tell it to return multiple possible positions at which the alignment ends -> is that helpful? You can't make sure those are the min and max though if I am correct.

I can't give much better answer right now without spending significant amount of time on figure this all out. If you are intersted, there is a link to an article for Edlib that I wrote, that explains inner workings in detail, so that could shine some light on your question also.

from edlib.