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Re: new-flex-completion-style
From: |
João Távora |
Subject: |
Re: new-flex-completion-style |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:21:51 +0000 |
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:33 PM Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> João Távora <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Eventually we could weight the number and length
> > of holes differently so we can get this:
> >
> > score(foo,barfoobaz) > score(foo,fabrobazo) >
> > score(foo,fotttttttttttttttttttttto)
> >
> > Which would be nicer, I think.
>
> My experience on this type of discussions about flx says that you should
> design a scoring algorithm based on some generic, human-related
> heuristic that makes sense to you and stick to it. You will hear lots of
> complaints by those that dislike the system, showing specific examples
> that demonstrate "obvious" deficiencies on your approach. But it is
> impossible to create something that makes everybody happy.
I agree with all your arguments, but I do think Stefan has a pretty
good point in that example. There's no reason not to heed it.
> As long as Emacs can't read our minds, there will be no good-enough
> completion mechanism. And even then... we are dealing with the Emacs
> user base, you know :-)
Indeed...
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, (continued)
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, Stefan Monnier, 2019/02/12
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/12
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/13
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, Stefan Monnier, 2019/02/13
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/13
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, Stefan Monnier, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/02/14
- RE: new-flex-completion-style, Drew Adams, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style,
João Távora <=
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, Daniel Pittman, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- RE: new-flex-completion-style, Drew Adams, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- RE: new-flex-completion-style, Drew Adams, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- RE: new-flex-completion-style, Drew Adams, 2019/02/14
- Re: new-flex-completion-style, João Távora, 2019/02/14
- RE: new-flex-completion-style, Drew Adams, 2019/02/14