GNU bug report logs - #36829
27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>

Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:15:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 36829-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
Cc: 36829-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36829: 27.0.50; flx completion style mentioned on NEWS
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 14:16:20 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv <at> wanadoo.es>
> 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.
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