Re: Sorting Order of Completion Candidates

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:29:49 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote: 

>> Florian: I've proposed a patch to use the string property
>> :completion-score to attach a numerical score to the completion
>> candidates.

SM> Note that there are two forms of sorting: sorting for *Completion*
SM> display, and sorting for cycling.  Currently, these are not sorted
SM> identically (cycling sorts by string length, whereas *Completions*
SM> sorts alphabetically).  I don't think "alphabetical" is useful for
SM> cycling and neither do I think that "shorter first" is useful for
SM> cycling, so I think it's important to keep them separate.

Do you think *Completion* candidates could also use the
:completion-score property?  It should be easy to add.

Ted