From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: textmate like fuzzy matching file completion? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:09:23 -0800 Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Message-ID: <47c09993$0$1080$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203821556 30705 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 02:52:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:52:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 03:53:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JT6z1-00080a-22 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:52:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT6yV-0003Qt-J8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:52:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad01!roadrunner.com!not-for-mail Original-From: ve macs <"ve macs a gmail"> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.89.255.117 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156434 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:51:18 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51806 Archived-At: Textmate has a very nice file-opening and switching command mapped to Apple-T which allows a "fuzzy" string to be entered to so the user can switch to a file which may or may not have been opened yet. For example, type "elp" and files in the "project" such as "elephant" and "elope" will both show up as possible matches. Is there something similar for emacs? I looked into Icicles which has a fuzzy matching mode, but emacswiki says it does NOT do filename completion.