From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
"'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'Leo' <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: `completion-in-region'
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:12:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9EC614CB775A48A78EA0C95AD70183D4@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v2pe01d8a51004111308p2afe22efua162ae5322473af3@mail.gmail.com>
> > I see that ido implements it by turning "abc" into the regexp
> > ".*a.*b.*c". But matching this regexp against a string like
> > "abababababab" takes time O(N^3) where N is the length of
> > the completion candidate, which makes me a bit uneasy
>
> Does not "^a.*?b.*?c" give the same matches?
(Why do you write `.*?' ?)
Anyway, I think the point is that users can already, today, match in this way
using a pattern that includes special chars (wildcards), but that the request
was to be able to just type `abc', not some pattern like `*a*b*c'.
People who like such ~fuzzy matching don't want to mess with extra chars - the
point is to type a few chars quickly and get the effect of typing many.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-11 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 14:37 `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-09 3:05 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 12:56 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-11 15:32 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 18:05 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-11 19:44 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 19:56 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-11 20:49 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 21:13 ` `completion-in-region' Drew Adams
2010-04-11 20:08 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-11 20:51 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 21:06 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-12 2:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 9:46 ` `completion-in-region' Lennart Borgman
2010-04-12 13:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 14:50 ` `completion-in-region' Davis Herring
2010-04-11 21:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-04-12 15:36 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
2010-04-12 18:10 ` `completion-in-region' Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 15:51 ` `completion-in-region' Leo
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