From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 44297@debbugs.gnu.org, leungbk@mailfence.com
Subject: bug#44297: [Feature request] project.el: Additional utility functions
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:18:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuuap6m6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9007689-87f8-b087-1474-693e85fddc00@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:42:52 +0200")
>> file.html, file.js and file.css.
>
> OK.
>
> How will we choose among multiple files when there are more than 2?
> Completing read on the file extension? Or just rotate among the files in
> a pre-defined order?
The convenience of rotating will degrade with increase of the number of found files.
But maybe rotating among 3 files would be fine.
>>> A fuzzy search across full names works best for me, personally. We could
>>> also try some differently weighted, fuzzy matching styles.
>> I don't know if the required completion can be part of a fuzzy search,
>> but it should show exactly the same completions as the current command
>> (with directory and file names), but should match only on file name parts,
>> not on directory name parts, e.g. with files:
>> dirname/filename1 dirname/file2
>> typing "name" for completions should show only "dirname/filename1",
>> because most of the time, project directory names get in the way
>> when searching for a file by its name, and part of file name matches
>> directory names with many other unrelated files.
>
> So... suppose the user types out a file name in full and sees several
> matches (in different directories). What happens then?
The user then selects one of them to visit.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 2:52 bug#44297: [Feature request] project.el: Additional utility functions Brian Leung via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-29 9:03 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-29 23:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-29 23:57 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-30 0:47 ` Brian Leung via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-30 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-30 17:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-30 7:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-30 17:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-31 19:18 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-11-02 0:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-10-29 23:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
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