From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about the initials completion-style Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:38:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <201007151800.48336.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279809540 8484 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2010 14:39:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 22 16:38:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObwvL-0006SG-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ObwvK-0000rB-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39696 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ObwvF-0000qw-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObwvE-0003iK-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:47258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObwvE-0003i5-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-131.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.131]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o6MEcmC4016259; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 987F9660D2; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:38:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <201007151800.48336.tassilo@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3583=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127639 Archived-At: > I really like the idea of the `initials' completion style, but that > doesn't work for me. When I do `M-x ss' I want to call > `server-start' (or any other command with exactly 2 words separated by > some non-word-char). I had an own mode for executing commands by giving > only initials, but I'd like to drop that for the new `completion-styles' > in recent emacsen. [...] > So it would be good, if there was a variant of partial-completion that > didn't consider symbols with more hyphens than are actually there. Or > is there a way to do that right now (using a recent bzr checkout)? There is no such feature, no. Feel free to code it up, but be warned: there's more than one s-s match even in "emacs -Q" so you'll have to type something more. So you may end up discovering that you still have to type just as much. Stefan