[slime-devel] Re: Fuzzy completion

[Brian Downing]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:05:53AM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote:
> > This is your last chance to tell me that you hate the
> > algorithm/interface/idea and want it to be completely different!  (Or
> > more constructive suggestions -- I'm interested.  :)
> 
> One idea I have is that if you press a self-inserting character in the
> completions buffer then it would be dismissed and the character
> inserted in the target buffer. The idea is that if fuzzy completion
> guesses the right symbol for the first choice then you can just keep
> typing and the completion window will disappear.

I like that, but I'd also like to keep space, backspace, and q behaving
they way they do now.  (q is so common to get out of an unwanted popup I
think it would be unnatural to lose it.)

Unfortunatly with changes the code doesn't work for me right now, but
I mailed Luke privately about that.

-bcd