GNU bug report logs - #12796
Optimize `ido-completing-read' for larger lists with flex matching enabled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 06:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 12796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Kim Storm <storm <at> cua.dk>, 12796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#12796: Optimize `ido-completing-read' for larger lists with
	flex matching enabled
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:14:44 -0500

>> From this bit in ido-set-matches-1:

> (if ido-enable-prefix 
>     (setq re (concat "\\`" re)))

> It seems not including the leading and trailing .* is intended.

Indeed.  This undesired behavior was introduced by the change to
split-string introduced in Emacs-22, so the patch fixes a regression
w.r.t Emacs-21.

> So do you mind installing the following small change for 24.3 that
> greatly improves ido performance:

I guess it's OK, yes.


        Stefan
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