Subject: bug#36829: closed (Re: bug#36829: 27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS)

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Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:17:02 +0000

Your bug report

#36829: 27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#36829: 27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 14:16:20 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:14:19 +0200
> 
> ** New 'flex' completion style
> An implementation of popular "flx/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
> matches strings where the pattern appears as a subsequence.  Put
> simply, makes "foo" complete to both "barfoo" and "frodo".  Add 'flex'
> to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it.
> 
> "flx" is a matching *and* scoring method. What is described on the NEWS
> entry only impacts matching. Maybe the author made a typo and wanted to
> write "flex/fuzzy/scatter" instead?

Thanks, fixed.

Subject: 27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS
From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:14:19 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

NEWS says

** New 'flex' completion style
An implementation of popular "flx/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
matches strings where the pattern appears as a subsequence.  Put
simply, makes "foo" complete to both "barfoo" and "frodo".  Add 'flex'
to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it.

"flx" is a matching *and* scoring method. What is described on the NEWS
entry only impacts matching. Maybe the author made a typo and wanted to
write "flex/fuzzy/scatter" instead?

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2019-07-28 built on sky
Repository revision: 77ee23d1ede9eece3eab4cc67d7f2e72d30a1117
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid