Re: [xmonad] Two patches related to XMonad.Prompt

Norbert Zeh writes:

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:59 AM Peter Jones wrote:

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Norbert Zeh writes:

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I really got used to using emacs ido mode, which offers a pretty powerful and intuitive fuzzy matching of completions, so I wanted to port the same to XMonad.Prompt.

I've wanted this for a long time, can't wait to try it out. Thanks! Excellent. Once you get to try it out, any feedback on how to improve the sorting, if any, would be appreciated. It took me some tries to come up with the current version, which I am pretty happy with as far as matching my sorting expectations goes, but that doesn't mean that there aren't more intuitive criteria for sorting. In the end, of course, it's all heuristic anyway.

I've been playing with your fuzzy matching for about a week now. I really, really like it. The only issue I have is that I can't seem to get tab completion to work. For simple prompts I can just press enter once the item I want is selected. But for more complicated menus, such as the shell menu, I want to be able to press tab and have the current item expanded so I can start entering arguments. This doesn't seem to work. I've also noticed that if I have fuzzy matching turned on in the shell prompt and start to complete a file path it crashes the prompt and I have to restart xmonad to remove the X window that the prompt created. -- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code