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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completion-styles with increasing level of matching
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:34:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r120asgn.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: zp1eAU48jPzvp1B5SwS_1ONT6h4DOx3-J57OtXJELmao4PcM0y_ZrJkWV8--o4s8B1kx_ZriYhU2RNvNB01r-qfn_ZzYnRMNgmju7yP8SuU=@proton.me

uzibalqa wrote:

> `flex' attempts to complete using in-order substrings, so
> `foo' matches `frodo' or `fbarbazoo'.
> Whereas `initials' complete acronyms and initialisms such that
> `lch' matches `list-command-history'.
>
> They seem to do the same thing to me. Any good insight what
> one can do but the other can't?

While I do rely on chemical, cognitive and physical speed the
physical part of that is typing so I'm the worst person to ask
actually ;)

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-01 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-01 13:05 completion-styles with increasing level of matching uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-01 13:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 15:25   ` uzibalqa
2022-08-01 15:34     ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-08-01 21:38       ` Samuel Wales

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