From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completion-styles with increasing level of matching
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:25:32 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 1:33 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> > Are `flex' and` initials' considered frequently useful?
>
>
> Depends who you ask ...
>
> > Which isthe most aggressive from the two?
>
>
> Depends what property that is and how it is
> measured/estimated ...
`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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-01 15:25 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 [this message]
2022-08-01 15:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 21:38 ` Samuel Wales
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