From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>,
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: handling many matches [was: [ELPA] New package: transient]
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 01:16:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9f15b2a-d8b3-0c84-b7da-65aa30082e57@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <119c0543-387d-4fad-b7fe-b4e07a7be4f8@default>
On 01.05.2020 20:20, Drew Adams wrote:
> 1. Progressive matching, i.e., narrowing the set
> of candidates by matching another pattern.
> (Rinse and repeat.)
>
> 2. Pruning, by excluding matches.
>
> 3. On-demand help on individual candidates.
This is all high-maintenance. It requires the user to master the
matching interface first, with extra keys and new behaviors.
Whereas "other editors" have already solved this better (perhaps not
ideally, but better) by doing fuzzy matching with smart enough sorting.
We should start by matching that functionality, and only then add extra
capabilities, maybe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-01 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 17:20 handling many matches [was: [ELPA] New package: transient] Drew Adams
2020-05-01 22:16 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2020-05-01 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 6:29 ` handling many matches Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 16:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 21:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
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