Re: textmate like fuzzy matching file completion?

[ve macs]

ido-enable-flex-matching is great.  However, it does not seem to match 
filenames in "projects".  Is there such a functionality in ido-mode or in 
some other mode?

To be more clear about the functionality I'm talking about, suppose you 
have a project rooted in the "project" directory:

project/
|
+--- subdir1/
|           |
|           blah.txt
|
|--- subdir2/
|           |
|           blah.txt
|
|--- subdir3/
            |
            blah.txt

In textmate, if you are currently working with a file in any directory in 
the project, matches will occur on any file in that project.  So if you 
are currently working on the blah.txt file in subdir1/, typing in 'blah' 
will bring up as choices the blah file in subdir2/ in addition to the one 
in subdir3/.


William Xu wrote:
> 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]
> `----