[slime-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fuzzy Completion cleanup

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:13:24 +0100, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

Hi,

the attached patch cleans up parts of the relevant code for fuzzy completion in swank.lisp.

There are two user visible changes:

i) The flags in the *Fuzzy Completions* buffer (indicating if the respective symbol is boundp, fboundp, represeting a class, macro &c) are now extended by the "p" flag indicating the there exists a package accessible via that symbol.

ii) the symbols in the *Fuzzy Completions* are now sorted alphabetically before sorted by their score. From my ChangeLog entry:

This sounds wrong for the 'normal' case: isn't the whole point of 'fuzzyness' lost. When, actually, would two symbols be sorted equal alphabetically so that scoring would kick in?

    Affects especially the list of all possible completions when the

user hits fuzzy-completion on an empty string within Emacs;

Sounds like you optimize for the mindless user ...

also makes

the potential limitness of the listed completions clearer to the end user of SLIME.

I thought our 'end users' would be slightly smarter than the average ;-)

Cheers, Ralf Mattes