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@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@ 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 matching styles: literally, as a regexp, as an -initialism, in the flex style, or as word prefixes. The regexp and -initialism styles are enabled by default. +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 +initialism matches are enabled. -Completion styles are used as entries in the variables +Completion styles like =orderless= are used as entries in the variables =completion-styles= and =completion-category-overrides=, see their -documentation. +documentation. These completions styles can be used with the default +Emacs completion UI (sometimes called minibuffer tab completion) or +with the built-in Icomplete package (which is similar to the more +well-know Ido Mode). So to test this completion method you can put =orderless.el= somewhere on your =load-path=, and use the following configuration: @@ -17,8 +20,15 @@ on your =load-path=, and use the following configuration: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'orderless) (setq completion-styles '(orderless)) +(icomplete-mode) ; optional but recommended! #+end_src +(And of course, if you use another completion framework such as Ivy or +Helm, disable it.) + +If you like the experience of using =orderless= with Icomplete, but wish +the candidates displayed vertically, you can use [[https://github.com/oantolin/icomplete-vertical][icomplete-vertical]]. + Bug reports are highly welcome and appreciated! * Customization @@ -28,7 +38,7 @@ Bug reports are highly welcome and appreciated! Each component of a pattern can match in any of several matching styles. A matching style is simply a function from strings to strings that maps a component to a regexp to match against, so it is easy to -add new matching styles. The predefined one are: +define new matching styles. The predefined ones are: - orderless-regexp :: the component is treated as a regexp that must match somewhere in the candidate. |