Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b0e318d 2/2: Score flex-style completions according to match tightness

[Stefan Monnier]

> It adds them in the hope that they would be useful in the near future.
> When I added this bit, I thought it would be a matter of days until we
> found a suitable place for a sorting function to use those properties.
> But it's been two months and a decision hasn't yet been reached.

Actually, I think we did reach a consensus, but I haven't gotten to
writing the code yet.

> So  there are currently no users of that functionality, and it
> could very well be removed.

Please leave it in.

> Regardless of the decision of where to put sorting function based
> on flex scores, completion-pcm--... is a most suitable place to add the
> scoring, since this is where the string is propertized (and the scoring
> is closely related to that.

Also, I think the scoring would be valuable for `partial-completion` and
`initialism` styles as well (i.e. for all users of PCM).


        Stefan