branch: externals/orderless
commit f2af44bf2e5ca7a0bb6bb12677e9919b33216848
Author: Omar Antolín <[email protected]>
Commit: Omar Antolín <[email protected]>
Mention Icicles's progressive matching
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README.org | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 1047986360..22de6fe058 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -166,3 +166,14 @@ The components can be matched literally, as regexps, as
initialisms or
in the flex style (called "fuzzy" in prescient). In addition to
matching, =prescient.el= also supports sorting of candidates (=orderless=
leaves that up to the candidate source and the completion UI).
+
+* Icicles's progressive matching
+
+An effect equivalent to matching multiple components in any order can
+be achieved in completion frameworks that provide a way to restrict
+further matching to the current lists of candidates. In
[[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles][Icicles]] this
+is called /progressive completion/ and using =S-SPC= instead of =SPC= to
+separate components will do it. (Note that Ivy has an analogous
+command, also bound to =S-SPC=, called =ivy-restrict-to-matches=, so you
+can get the effect of out of order matching without using
+=ivy--regex-ignore-order=.)
