Re: Question about the initials completion-style

[Stefan Monnier]

> I really like the idea of the `initials' completion style, but that
> doesn't work for me.  When I do `M-x ss<TAB>' I want to call
> `server-start' (or any other command with exactly 2 words separated by
> some non-word-char).  I had an own mode for executing commands by giving
> only initials, but I'd like to drop that for the new `completion-styles'
> in recent emacsen.
[...]
> So it would be good, if there was a variant of partial-completion that
> didn't consider symbols with more hyphens than are actually there.  Or
> is there a way to do that right now (using a recent bzr checkout)?

There is no such feature, no.  Feel free to code it up, but be warned:
there's more than one s-s match even in "emacs -Q" so you'll have to
type something more.  So you may end up discovering that you still have
to type just as much.


        Stefan