Switching orderloss off

Switching orderloss off

[arvid-harnack]

I am using orderless completion in minibuffer 



   (require 'orderless)

   (setq completion-styles '(orderless))



But I have no clue how to switch it off should I want to.

Re: Switching orderloss off

[Doug Davis]

arvid-harnack@lavache.com writes:

> I am using orderless completion in minibuffer 
>
>
>
>    (require 'orderless)
>
>    (setq completion-styles '(orderless))
>
>
>
> But I have no clue how to switch it off should I want to.

This is what I have in my init.el to use orderless in the minibuffer
only:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (defun dd/use-orderless-in-minibuffer ()
    (interactive)
    (setq-local completion-styles '(orderless)))

  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'dd/use-orderless-in-minibuffer)
#+end_src

Re: Switching orderloss off

[Óscar Fuentes]

arvid-harnack@lavache.com writes:

> I am using orderless completion in minibuffer 
>
>
>
>    (require 'orderless)
>
>    (setq completion-styles '(orderless))
>
>
>
> But I have no clue how to switch it off should I want to.

Just set it to something else:

(setq completion-styles '(basic))

In case you wish to restore completion-styles to whatever it was before
the change, just store the previous value:

;; Use orderless completion style:
(setq my-previous-completion-styles completion-styles)
(setq completion-styles '(orderless))

;; Go back to the previous completion styles:
(setq completion-styles my-previous-completion-styles)

Switching orderloss off

[arvid-harnack]

Thank you.  Have looked at the various capabilities of "completion-styles" (basic, partial-completion, substring, initials)



Which setup would you find most convenient to use ? Do people customarily fill "completion-styles"



Would it be good to use alternatives rather than a single one ? What sequence would then work nicely?



Thanks


From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: arvid-harnack@lavache.com
Subject: Re: Switching orderloss off
Date: 11/06/2021 03:20:48 Europe/Paris
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

arvid-harnack@lavache.com writes:

> I am using orderless completion in minibuffer 
>
>
>
>    (require 'orderless)
>
>    (setq completion-styles '(orderless))
>
>
>
> But I have no clue how to switch it off should I want to.

Just set it to something else:

(setq completion-styles '(basic))

In case you wish to restore completion-styles to whatever it was before
the change, just store the previous value:

;; Use orderless completion style:
(setq my-previous-completion-styles completion-styles)
(setq completion-styles '(orderless))

;; Go back to the previous completion styles:
(setq completion-styles my-previous-completion-styles)

Re: Switching orderloss off

[Philip Kaludercic]

arvid-harnack@lavache.com writes:

> Which setup would you find most convenient to use ? Do people
> customarily fill "completion-styles"

I cannot speak for most people, but I personally use

  '(basic initials partial-completion substring)

meaning it first tries a pretty standard completion, then tries to
expand initials (plp becomes package-list-packages), then tries to
expand parts of symbols (pack-l-pac becomes package-list-packages) and
finally tries inserting anything pac|list, where | is the point, becomes
package-list-packages).

Not sure how this compares to orderless, as I have never serious tries
using it.


-- 
	Philip K.