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authorOmar Antolín <omar.antolin@gmail.com>2020-04-23 00:56:51 -0500
committerOmar Antolín <omar.antolin@gmail.com>2020-04-23 00:56:51 -0500
commitb059c15911894035eba8cf097699dbf86d6c5c97 (patch)
treef4d34c3a10330c6e681ae23ac8c11d5bdf9c6d1a /README.org
parentd0143484d08f72013885ef43fdd504fed21103c3 (diff)
Make orderless-prefixes more like partial-completion
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This package provides an =orderless= completion style that divides the
pattern into space-separated components, and matches candidates that
match all of the components in any order. Each component can match in
any one of several ways: literally, as a regexp, as an initialism, in
-the flex style, or as hyphenated word prefixes. By default, regexp and
+the flex style, or as multiple word prefixes. By default, regexp and
initialism matches are enabled.
Completion styles like =orderless= are used as entries in the variables
@@ -60,12 +60,13 @@ define new matching styles. The predefined ones are:
This maps =abc= to =a.*b.*c=.
-- orderless-prefixes :: the component is split on hyphens and slashes
- and each piece must be a word prefix in the candidate, occurring in
- that order.
+- orderless-prefixes :: the component is split at word endings and
+ each piece must match at a word boundary in the candidate, occurring
+ in that order.
This is similar to the built-in =partial-completion= completion-style.
- For example =re-re= matches =query-replace-regexp= and =recode-region=.
+ For example, =re-re= matches =query-replace-regexp=, =recode-region= and
+ =magit-remote-list-refs=; =f-d.t= matches =final-draft.txt=.
The variable =orderless-component-matching-style= should be set to a
list of the desired styles to use. By default it enables the regexp