From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70036 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Fancy completion Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:07:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283137667 21628 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 03:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:07:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18422@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 30 05:07:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Opuil-0001dI-R1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OpuiZ-0001a3-M4; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OpuiX-0001Zm-TX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OpuiW-0004Op-Ov for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OpuiW-0000r1-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:28 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpuiW-0001Xv-1p for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:28 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.9.122.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:28 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoAgMAAADxkFD+AAAADFBMVEUvT09qWs3/pQD///+J kUVcAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMLOd3veKQA AACuSURBVBjTldE9CgIxEAXgB+lEyFUC2wo5ikdZ8DSypxhMY7H9VuIVwlqkGRgnm59VsHGafIQ3 CZlAtmKIRaHETgYa12lqvEsPYKf8wXHsPGfqPaUM0g9aJPKFXkmNQmSDqwzz4Fpgpz+6WAPY2z5o uPJJpu0uypcl4nyCibMLQ8lCiVjayLoQvw5LsVKQuHPRR958HZbOcVsKeepcLxpByjycGvnKmY+c MBvrtyjfe0vmuLvdq/kAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6yKIUMAu3fW2PbpgQd5PsKSG7hs= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70036 Archived-At: On 2010-08-30 03:54 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if `j' in the Group buffer did completion in a > more... sloppy manner? I mean, I have a gazillion groups with names > that start with "nntp+news.gmane.org:...". But I know I want the > boingboing group. So if I wrote `j boingboing TAB', it would be nice if > it completed that to the group name. > > Does Emacs have a built-in completion function that does stuff like that > now, given a collection? Check out completion-styles. I think it allows one to type *boingboing and complete to candidates containing boingboing. Leo