Don't sort "discover" items in the command palette

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Changed
+
+- "Discover" hits in the command palette are no longer sorted alphabetically https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/4720
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed scroll_visible with margin https://github.com/Textualize/textual/pull/4719

docs/guide/command_palette.md

@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ this is to aid in command discoverability.
 
 - `discover` accepts no parameters (instead of the search value)
 - `discover` yields instances of [`DiscoveryHit`][textual.command.DiscoveryHit] (instead of instances of [`Hit`][textual.command.Hit])
-- discovery hits are sorted in ascending alphabetical order because there is no matching and no match score is generated
 
 Instances of [`DiscoveryHit`][textual.command.DiscoveryHit] contain information about how the hit should be displayed, an optional help string, and a callback which will be run if the user selects that command.
 

src/textual/command.py

@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ def _refresh_command_list(
             clear_current: Should the current content of the list be cleared first?
         """
         # For the moment, this is a fairly naive approach to populating the
-        # command list with a sorted list of commands. Every time we add a
+        # command list with a list of commands. Every time we add a
         # new one we're nuking the list of options and populating them
         # again. If this turns out to not be a great approach, we may try
         # and get a lot smarter with this (ideally OptionList will grow a
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ def _refresh_command_list(
             if command_list.highlighted is not None and not clear_current
             else None
         )
-        command_list.clear_options().add_options(sorted(commands, reverse=True))
+        command_list.clear_options().add_options(commands)
         if highlighted is not None and highlighted.id:
             command_list.highlighted = command_list.get_option_index(highlighted.id)
         self._list_visible = bool(command_list.option_count)