Re: Sorting Order of Completion Candidates

[Florian Beck]

On 03/01/2011 05:29 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> Florian: I've proposed a patch to use the string property
> :completion-score to attach a numerical score to the completion
> candidates.  The discussion so far is in the BBDB mailing list (where we
> needed to score completion candidates) but I will propose it on
> emacs-devel once Stefan reviews it.

Nice idea. You mean text properties on the strings?

So I would use something like

(defun string-score-higher (a b)
  (if (> (or (get-text-property 0 :completion-score a) 0)
         (or (get-text-property 0 :completion-score b) 0))
      a
    (string-lessp a b)))

as a sorting predicate?

Seems to work (so far),

Thanks,

Florian