Re: Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 02:07:09AM +0100, ??scar Fuentes wrote:
>Jo??o T??vora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ??scar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>>
>>> Jo??o T??vora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> It sounds like you're an ido-mode fan, so please try out
>>>> fido-mode and tell me what you think is missing from it. I
>>>> know a lot is, and I want to improve it.
>>>
>>> Has fido-mode support for flx-ido? Can I plug it in? Any other
>>> completion system that I know on Emacs is unbearably dumb IMAO.
>>
>> I don't know flx.  According to its github page flx is a "matching
>> engine", what in Emacs is a "completion style", I believe.  Right?  A
>> way to match a pattern to a universe/set of possible strings and to
>> return a (possibly propertized/annotated) subset of those strings.
>
>It takes a set of candidates and a string as inputs. The algorithm
>associates a score to each candidate based on the string and outputs a
>list of matching candidates sorted by the score.
>
1) Is this what amx (former smex) does? 

>> If so, and if flx adheres to the completion-styles API, then it's very
>> easy to plug in.  If it doesn't, maybe the author can find a way to
>> adapt it, just like Thierry did recently in Helm.
>
>Where can I learn about that completion-styles API?
>
>> You can also try 'flex' and tell me what you think you are missing from
>> flx.  I don't find flex "unbearably dumb" :-)
>
>I have experience with ido's flex and can't compare. flx requires some
>training but then it is extremely effective. I no longer bother to
>memorize most keyboard shorcuts, because by just remembering *some* part
>of the command's name it can be easily invoked through M-x, often with
>less keypresses (and with much less chording). It is quite effective at
>discovering new commands, once you have an idea of the naming convention
>that a package uses. Last, but not least, it is the matching system used
>by some of the "cool kids" that competes with Emacs (Sublime Text, to
>name one).
>
if 1) is it like: ivy???regex-fuzzy + amx?