From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'Leo' <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: `completion-in-region'
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:56:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B8CEB0AF6C26436DA7139B1CEB8C3146@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd3y5zssk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > TextMate's default matching (it has no name AFAIK) is the same as
> > Ido's "flex" matching and Icicles's "scatter" matching. It is
> > a poor-man's fuzzy matching (not fuzzy matching in the more usual
> > sense). (TextMate uses this matching only for file names, I
> > believe.)
>
> I see that ido implements it by turning "abc" into the regexp
> ".*a.*b.*c". But matching this regexp against a string like
> "abababababab" takes time O(N^3) where N is the length of the
> completion candidate, which makes me a bit uneasy (and in
> general matching "flex"ibly an input string of size M against
> a completion candidate of size N can take time O(N^M)). But
> I guess experience shows it's not a real problem.
>
> It should be pretty easy to add it as a new completion-style
> (after all you can already get the same result with partial
> completion by typing "*a*b*c").
Yes, to all you said.
The question is whether matching like this should be the default. IMO, no.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-11 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 14:37 `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-09 3:05 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 12:56 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-11 15:32 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 18:05 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-11 19:44 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 19:56 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-04-11 20:49 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 21:13 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-11 20:08 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-11 20:51 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 21:06 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-12 2:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 9:46 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-12 13:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 14:50 ` `completion-in-region' Davis Herring
2010-04-11 21:12 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-12 15:36 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-12 18:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 15:51 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
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