From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: textmate like fuzzy matching file completion? Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:19:08 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <47c09993$0$1080$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203823195 2150 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 03:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:19:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 04:20:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JT7PS-0004Yi-Qp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:20:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT7Ow-0001Ty-Ol for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JT7Oi-0001Tl-5Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JT7Oe-0001SY-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT7Oe-0001SV-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JT7Oe-0007s7-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JT7OY-0001E6-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:19:18 +0000 Original-Received: from kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp ([125.52.252.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:19:18 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:19:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cIQi532OJmfCU/z8xOfYrZQ0Ac= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51810 Archived-At: Unknown writes: > Textmate has a very nice file-opening and switching command mapped to > Apple-T which allows a "fuzzy" string to be entered to so the user can > switch to a file which may or may not have been opened yet. For > example, type "elp" and files in the "project" such as "elephant" and > "elope" will both show up as possible matches. Is there something > similar for emacs? Sure! Try ido-mode. Also, you may like to enable flex matching for your purpose: ,----[ C-h v ido-enable-flex-matching RET ] | ido-enable-flex-matching is a variable defined in `ido.el'. | Its value is nil | | | Documentation: | *Non-nil means that `ido' will do flexible string matching. | Flexible matching means that if the entered string does not | match any item, any item containing the entered characters | in the given sequence will match. | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- -- William http://williamxu.net9.org