Re: textmate like fuzzy matching file completion?

[William Xu]

Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid> 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]
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William

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