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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: new-flex-completion-style (was: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/ 2c75775 2/2: Score, sort and annotate flex-style completions according to match tightness)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:57:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <edd964ec-de87-4346-9cd9-73f46e4ad845@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva7j2oypq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

FWIW -

I guess you're arguing for an ability to sort completion candidates at multiple places/levels, including far upstream from interactive use.

My concern/interest is more about interactive use, where sorting can usefully interact with progressive filtering.  I like late binding. ;-)

In my context (Icicles) users can filter completion candidates incrementally in various ways, and sorting can act either on "raw" completion candidates (e.g. alist entries, including their cdrs) or on displayed candidates (e.g. text in *Completions*).

Unlike vanilla Emacs, the same sort order applies (intentionally) for displaying matching completions and for cycling among those candidates.

Users can switch among any number of sort orders (predicates) interactively.

The default set of sort orders available for this switching is defined by a user option.  But the code context (e.g. code that calls `completing-read') can change this set.  So different commands can make different sets of sort orders available.

Users can define new sort orders with a macro, which adds them to those made available by the user option.

Maybe some such capabilities would be relevant to your context; dunno.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Sorting_Candidates



      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11 22:57 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] ` <20190202232828.4AE452159A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-02-06  3:11   ` [Emacs-diffs] scratch/new-flex-completion-style 2c75775 2/2: Score, sort and annotate flex-style completions according to match tightness Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-06 10:09     ` João Távora
2019-02-06 18:54       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-06 19:47         ` João Távora
2019-02-12  0:25           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-12 13:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12 22:55               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-13 16:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-14  1:33                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-19 16:10                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-24  0:03                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-27 17:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-11  0:17                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-03-11  1:15                             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-11 22:54                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-03-12  1:10                                 ` Drew Adams
2019-03-12 22:25                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-03-12 23:12                                     ` Drew Adams
2019-03-11  8:47                             ` João Távora
2019-03-11 22:57                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-12 17:21             ` João Távora
2019-02-12 23:47               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-11 21:10   ` new-flex-completion-style (was: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/ 2c75775 2/2: Score, sort and annotate flex-style completions according to match tightness) Stefan Monnier
2019-02-11 22:16     ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-11 23:02       ` new-flex-completion-style Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-11 23:11         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-12  0:10           ` new-flex-completion-style Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-12  0:16       ` new-flex-completion-style Óscar Fuentes
2019-02-12 22:04         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-13  0:28           ` new-flex-completion-style Óscar Fuentes
2019-02-13 11:20             ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-13 14:23               ` new-flex-completion-style Óscar Fuentes
2019-02-13 14:38                 ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-13 15:24               ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-13 15:33                 ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-13 15:40                 ` new-flex-completion-style Óscar Fuentes
2019-02-13 17:34                   ` new-flex-completion-style Daniel Pittman
2019-02-12 14:08       ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12 22:17         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-13 17:29           ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-13 18:54             ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-13 19:13               ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 13:36                 ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-14 13:55                   ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 14:59                     ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 15:28                       ` new-flex-completion-style Óscar Fuentes
2019-02-14 15:44                         ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-14 16:21                         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 15:35                       ` new-flex-completion-style Daniel Pittman
2019-02-14 16:12                         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 16:16                           ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 16:34                         ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-14 17:03                           ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 17:49                             ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-14 18:30                               ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 19:20                                 ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-14 20:54                                   ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 22:03                                     ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-14 22:06                                       ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-14 22:22                                       ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15  0:54                                         ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-15  4:50                                           ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15  5:52                                             ` new-flex-completion-style Dmitry Gutov
2019-02-15  6:32                                             ` new-flex-completion-style Drew Adams
2019-02-18 20:46         ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-18 23:35           ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19  9:16             ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-19 12:54               ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 13:01                 ` new-flex-completion-style João Távora
2019-02-19 13:32                   ` new-flex-completion-style Stefan Monnier
2019-02-11 22:57     ` Drew Adams [this message]

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