[slime-devel] Re: fuzzy completion patch again

[Ralf Mattes]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:12:34 +0200, Attila Lendvai wrote:

> hi!
> 
> this is a patch for fuzzy completion made by a friend of mine, Levente
> Mészáros. he's also subscribed, but he's busy right now, so i'm writing this
> mail...
> 
> see the original thread for a feature list:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/4938/focus=5007
> 
> also some find definition code has been added since then, works like the
> fuzzy completion, but jumps to the selected definition instead of replacing
> the word in the buffer.
> 
> we are using it in our daily work for several months now, and although none
> of us is an experienced elisp guru, it's very very handy from the user side.
> 
> i'm sending this patch in the hopes that someone with more elisp experience
> will review the diff and apply it to the cvs.

Hmm, i applied your patch to my local copy and it really broke things:

 - Emacs snapshot doesn't like the "<TAB>" keybindings (should be
   "\t"). 

 - Pressing the tab key in the repl does open the completition window and
   i'm able to navigate with "up"/"down", but selecting a completition
   with "enter"/"return" seems to send an "enter" to the repl. With
   paredit activated this causes havoc since the form most likely isn't
   completed yet.


Cheers, Ralf Mattes

> stuff that may need attention is the usual C-g abort handling (there's
 > a
> key binding for this, maybe some catch tag neets to be set up?), and the
> M-p/M-n history handling (doesn't work for the find-definition part).
> 
> and a feature idea right on: the fuzzy completion should not be started
> when the current input is less then 3 chars long.
> 
> hth,