Paul, On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > One really useful feature of Sublime Text is the "fuzzy match" behaviour of > popup menus. The way this works is that if you have a menu with items > "begin", "end", "eat", you start with all items showing. Then, as you type > letters, the list is restricted to only those items containing the typed > letters - but the letters do not have to be consecutive, or at the start of > the items being completed. > > So, with the above example, type "e" and nothing changes (but the first "e" > is highlighted in each item). Then type "n" and "eat" is removed from the > list. Add "d" and "end" is selected. > > In effect the list is restricted to the items that match the regex > .*<ch1>.*<ch2>.*<ch3>.* where ch1, ch2 and ch3 are the typed characters. > > I don't think this is currently possible in Vim. Would it be feasible to add > behaviour like this to the completion menu code? (On the other hand, if it > *is* possible already, can someone give me a pointer to some sample code?)
I think various completion plugins already do that. One instance I know of is at https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe Scroll down and you'll see an animated demonstration with fuzzy matching. Highlighting inside the popup menu isn't possible, though. David -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
