Re: new-flex-completion-style

[João Távora]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:34 PM Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> João's (first) reply to you, saying that an interactive
> Emacs context (e.g. completion) has needs that can be a
> bit different, is also relevant.
>
> FWIW, here is how Icicles uses (2 kinds of) Levenshtein
> matching:
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Completion_Methods_and_Styles#LevenshteinCompletion
>
> And here is how it uses a Jaro-Winkler matching:
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Completion_Methods_and_Styles#JaroWinklerMatchCompletion

Earlier, I forgot to tell you that I had visited your page (this is
where I learned the "scatter" alias) and for the record I'm
(re)implementing your "Scatter-Match (Flex) Completion" thing:

  https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Completion_Methods_and_Styles#toc8

Tho the equivalent regexp I'm using here is ".*a.*b.*c.*" not "a.*b.*c"
as your page states.  Anyway, what kind of scoring, if any, do you
use for sorting the matches to that particular completion style?

João









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