From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about the initials completion-style
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:38:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6d3shzs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007151800.48336.tassilo@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:48 +0200")
> I really like the idea of the `initials' completion style, but that
> doesn't work for me. When I do `M-x ss<TAB>' I want to call
> `server-start' (or any other command with exactly 2 words separated by
> some non-word-char). I had an own mode for executing commands by giving
> only initials, but I'd like to drop that for the new `completion-styles'
> in recent emacsen.
[...]
> So it would be good, if there was a variant of partial-completion that
> didn't consider symbols with more hyphens than are actually there. Or
> is there a way to do that right now (using a recent bzr checkout)?
There is no such feature, no. Feel free to code it up, but be warned:
there's more than one s-s match even in "emacs -Q" so you'll have to
type something more. So you may end up discovering that you still have
to type just as much.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 16:00 Question about the initials completion-style Tassilo Horn
2010-07-22 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-07-22 15:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-07-22 17:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-07-22 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
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