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Re: completion-styles with increasing level of matching
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uzibalqa |
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Re: completion-styles with increasing level of matching |
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Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:25:32 +0000 |
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On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 1:33 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
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> uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
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> > Are `flex' and` initials' considered frequently useful?
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> Depends who you ask ...
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> > Which isthe most aggressive from the two?
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> Depends what property that is and how it is
> measured/estimated ...
`flex' attempts to complete using in-order substrings, so `foo' matches `frodo'
or `fbarbazoo'.
Whereas `initials' complete acronyms and initialisms such that `lch' matches
`list-command-history'.
They seem to do the same thing to me. Any good insight what one can do but the
other can't?