Re: Feedback on fido-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.03.2020 16:42, João Távora wrote:
> Please be aware that fido-mode is really Icomplete-mode emulating _some_
> of ido-mode's features. It's likely that the emulation will get better 
> in the future
> or even surpass ido-mode in features. But in any case, it's _not_ an 
> emulation
> of Ivy-mode (if that's what you are after in some way).

I'm reasonably sure that more of these observations would apply to 
ido-mode as well. Adam, have you tried it? Maybe with 
ido-ubiquitous-mode (so it applies to all completing-read calls).

The difference vs. Ivy is about full flex (fuzzy) matching versus only 
allowing arbitrary text where the search string has spaces. That's why 
Ivy only matches the intended buffer for the input "init".

And fuzzy matching doesn't work as well when input strings are so long.

fido-mode could benefit from a possibility to choose a search style like 
Ivy's, but first, I think, we should unbind SPC from 
minibuffer-complete-word everywhere.