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@@ -40,3 +40,34 @@ The portions of a candidate matching each component get highlighted in one of four faces, =orderless-math-face-?= where =?= is a number from 0 to 3. If the pattern has more than four components, the faces get reused cyclically. + +* Related packages + +The well-known and hugely powerful completion frameworks [[https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper][Ivy]] and [[https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm][Helm]] +also provide for matching space-separated component regexps in any +order. In Ivy, this is done with the =ivy--regex-ignore-order= matcher. +In Helm, it is the default, called "multi pattern matching". + +This package is significantly smaller than either of those because it +solely provides a completion style, meant to be used with the built-in +Icomplete completion UI, while both of those provide their own +completion UI (and many other cool features!). + +It is worth pointing out that Helm does provide its multi pattern +matching as a completion style which could be used with Icomplete! So, +Icomplete users could, instead of using this package, instead install +Helm and configure Icomplete to use it as follows: + +#+begin_src emacs-lisp + (require 'helm) + (setq completion-styles '(helm)) + (icomplete-mode) +#+end_src + +(Of course, if you install Helm, you probably might as well use the +Helm UI in =helm-mode= rather than using Icomplete.) + +The combination of [[https://github.com/raxod502/selectrum][Selectrum]] and [[https://github.com/raxod502/prescient.el][prescient.el]] also provides matching +of space-separated components in any order, but the components are +matched as either literal strings or initialisms rather than as +regexps. |