From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A package in a league of its own: Helm Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:33:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87egvy648b.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <787f8d86-dede-4627-b4e5-3658a1833455@googlegroups.com> <73520ac0-9fc0-42ce-8a15-cc400b6f8308@googlegroups.com> <672a0d66-bc48-4b7a-9279-c7d631a03f79@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409369670 18874 80.91.229.3 (30 Aug 2014 03:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:34:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 05:34:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQj-0007mv-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:34:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQi-0008Ns-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQQ-0008FG-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQI-0001Pa-Qp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQI-0001P2-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XNZQG-0007Jb-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:33:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.63.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:33:52 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:33:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kik/rEfUNFqoQnLNEoof525X2xE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99530 Archived-At: solidius4747@gmail.com writes: [snip] > Sure, it could be more productive for things you work regularly. But I > like a general interface that can deal with both known and unknown > environment. Speaking of that, it would be a good thing that helm supported multiple filtering methods. As you write on terms of helm vs ido I'll clarify that I'm referring to flx (not to be confused with ido's flex matching) which is a generic method that supports ido but which is not tied to it. The algorithm that takes the user input and a set of candidates and outputs a new set of canditates performs a task that is orthogonal to the rest of helm/ido. If helm allowed to configure the default filter method for each source (with a global default) and also allowed to switch it on the fly (as ido does) the users could select what best suit them on a case-by-case basis.