TZ> Maybe accept the score as a property to the candidate strings and use
TZ> that property, if it exists, instead of the string length?
TZ> That would side-step the current completion mechanism nicely, requiring
TZ> little extra code except in the final sort of candidates. If the
TZ> strings aren't mangled by the completion mechanism, of course--but I
TZ> don't think they are after a quick scan.
That would work. It's a quick&simple solution (i.e. generally a good
sign), but it has one drawback: the properties will be often added
without being used, since the list of completions is used not only to
build the *Completions* buffer or to cycle through completions but also
to do TAB completion (often just handled by try-completion, but with
substring completion it instead needs to get the all-completions list
and then weed it out).
So it has a performance downside (which means, it's not the last word in
this respect), but I'd probably accept a patch to add such a feature to
minibuffer.el since the performance impact is only incurred by
completion tables that really use the feature and it's unlikely to be
a serious maintenance problem in the future.
Stefan
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