From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Relevance search in Emacs Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:18:05 +0300 Message-ID: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40082"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 19:19:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1klc9I-000AMF-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:19:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44586 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klc9H-0000xJ-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klc8K-0000fY-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:37973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klc8I-0007MY-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.57]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0007.000000005FCBCEE0.00007E34; Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:18:07 +0000 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: 17 X-Spam_score: 1.7 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126038 Archived-At: Before weeks I was discussing and trying to find something that could replace the `helm' in Emacs, so that I spare using external libraries. Then discussion with Drew clarified that what I am looking is rather type of a filter. But I would like to filter by relevance. Some packages like `ivy' and `helm' do offer relevance searches. Yet I wish to spare the basic package from using external functions. This way me or other users can use any completion or Emacs built-in completion function which is generally more user friendly in my opinion. Chapter 12. Full Text Search https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-intro.html#TEXTSEARCH-MATCHING What is good is that database PostgreSQL offers built-in relevance searches and that spares coding and using other packages, so I am transitioning to minimize usage of helm or take it completely out and replace it with tabulated-list-mode that will offer options to act on. I hope to replace the TAB in tabulated-list-mode so that it can offer screen of various options or completion from minibuffer for actions that may be invoked on a specific item. In the manual there is little I can find related to "relevance". If somebody knows if there is some "relevance" search in Emacs built-in packages let me know, otherwise I will let database do the job.