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From: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: History completion
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 18:40:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6929518f-8179-626f-f8e9-d24a011d552f@inventati.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sfv1pw6d.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

On 09/12/21 18:18, Juri Linkov wrote:
> One problem is that I can't find a suitable completion style for this
> that would match on substrings, e.g. "pu re" to match "git pull --rebase".
> The style ‘flex’ is too lax and matches characters anywhere.
> The style ‘substring’ is the closest, but it requires moving point
> to the middle of the string.  Maybe a new style ‘substrings’ is needed
> that would match words separated by space as substrings.  Also maybe
> another style ‘initial-substrings’ that does the same, but only
> matches word beginnings.

Maybe it could be worth to give orderless[1] a try for this?


[1] https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

-- 
Manuel Uberti
www.manueluberti.eu



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-08 18:54 History completion Juri Linkov
2021-12-08 20:02 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-09  6:05   ` Manuel Uberti
2021-12-09 17:12   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09 22:52     ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 20:52 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-09  8:30   ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-12-09 17:16   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09 18:13     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-09  7:51 ` Manuel Uberti
2021-12-09 17:18   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09 17:40     ` Manuel Uberti [this message]
2022-06-09  7:01 ` Juri Linkov

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