Re: Feature branches review please (ivy hello)

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> [2020-11-06 14:17]:
>> Hi Jean Louis,
>> 
>> > P.S. I am including author of Ivy Oleh Krehel with hope and proposal
>> > to improve ivy with reverse order of words selections and hopefully to
>> > include it in GNU Emacs.
>> 
>> Ivy already has the option of reverse order matching:
>> 
>> (setq ivy-re-builders-alist
>>       '((t . ivy--regex-ignore-order)))
>> 
>> It's not on by default, because the default setting, in my opinion,
>> results in a faster match if you know what you're looking for.
>
> I hope that it did not touch you. That is great that such function
> exist. I did search with ivy with "ivy" and "match" as I was thinkin
> it will be somewhere there.

The way Ivy performs matching is relatively customisable;
see (info "(ivy) Completion Styles").  Note that this is a separate
customisation mechanism to that of the built-in completion-styles.

> That is great package and I am glad it is in GNU ELPA and this is what
> I needed.
>
> I have seen previous discussion about it entering main Emacs.
>
> Question: Why not?

I already referred you to the correct thread for discussing that in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-11/msg00172.html.

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Basil