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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: Antoine Levitt <smeuuh@gmail.com>, 2042@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2042: Ido-mode : filtering does not keep ordering
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:38:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obx0ti9i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18vp4dzsh.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:04:30 +0800")

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> The existing code gives different precedence to different match type:
>
>  full-matches > suffix matches > prefix matches > remaining matches
>
> For example in switching buffers in ido:
>
> input: ab
>
> Buffer: ab[c]{abcd | abc | xabcd | xabc}
>
> now when the user types c, it changes to:
>
> Buffer: abc{abc | abcd | xabcd | xabc}
>
> Note the different ordering of "abcd" and "abc". Because typing is so
> much quicker than observing the new order, one usually mis-chooses a
> match.

Thanks.  I guess since at least two users of ido have complained about
this behavior, and no one else has chimed in, we can go ahead and make
this change after the release.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-29  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-25 13:54 bug#2042: Ido-mode : filtering does not keep ordering Antoine Levitt
2011-09-24 16:20 ` Leo
2011-09-25  8:54   ` Antoine Levitt
2011-10-01 19:10   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-02  0:04     ` Leo
2011-10-29  6:38       ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-10-29  7:06         ` Leo
2012-09-16  9:29         ` Matthew Woodcraft
2012-09-16 14:55           ` Leo
2012-09-16 15:03             ` Leo
2012-09-16 16:33               ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-16 22:28 ` Leo

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