On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 4:40 PM Tassilo Horn <
tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> > (add-hook 'icomplete-minibuffer-setup-hook 'my-flex-styles)
> > (defun my-flex-styles () (setq-local completion-styles '(initials flex)))
> >
> > Or just use a lambda, which is even shorter. I'd like to avoid a
> > duplicate version of completion-styles customization vars.
>
> I guess fido-mode sets `completion-styles' locally in order to achieve
> ido-like defaults, right?
Yes, exactly. fido-mode is broadly "choose these nice icomplete-mode
settings that make it fake ido-mode".
> But as a user with customized
> `completion-styles' and `completion-category-overrides', I wish there
> was a simple way to just use them with fido, too.
You can try icomplete-mode directly if you don't like fido-mode's.
fido-mode is a small customization layer on top of it that makes
some choices for you.
> Especially, I can't
> see how I could figure out the right category override. Is the
> completion metadata accessible in icomplete-minibuffer-setup-hook?
I don't know what you mean. Exactly what are you trying do to?
Anyway, I'm reasonably confident you can set
completion-category-overrides there.
> I would like to use fido (more than icomplete) because the keybindings
> suite my intuition but I'd like to keep my completion styles and
> overrides as I have them.
If (some of the keybindings) are the only thing that interest you,
you can bind them to icomplete-minibuffer-map. The only thing
you can't do this way is this bit of behaviour hidden in
`icomplete--sorted-completions'
((and fido-mode
(not minibuffer-default)
(eq (icomplete--category) 'file))
;; `fido-mode' has some extra file-sorting
;; semantics even if there isn't a default,
;; which is to bubble "./" to the top if it
;; exists. This makes M-x dired RET RET go to
;; the directory of current file, which is
;; what vanilla Emacs and `ido-mode' both do.
`(,(lambda (comp)
(string= "./" comp))))
But _that_ could be controlled by an icomplete variable or some
other category technique.
Also, you can argue for some of the defaults in icomplete to be
changed, slowly.