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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.03.2019 23:27, João Távora wrote:
> [sorry for the double mail Dmitry]

No problem!

> Yes, in this case it would come from company. I was thinking you
> could sort by `completion-score` in descending order.

But why do it that way? And anyway, the capf sorting will be 
customizable by the user. company-capf will need to honor that.

> > But if you just want to try and see how well the sorting works, you can
> > add one to `company-transformers`.
>
> Thanks, I added
>
> (defun sort-by-company-score (cands)
>    (cl-sort cands
>             #'>
>             :key (lambda (cand) (or (get-text-property 0
> 'completion-score cand) 0)))
>
> (add-to-list 'company-transformers 'sort-by-company-score)
>
> And it behaves much better.

That's good.

> My idea is that something like this could be
> be built-in into company (after the lexicographical sort).

No need to hurry before Stefan here, I think.