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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-08-15 12:32:32 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-08-15 12:32:32 +0300
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Document the 'flex' completion style
* doc/emacs/mini.texi (Completion Styles): Document the 'flex' completion style. (Bug#42763)
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@@ -518,6 +518,13 @@ between @samp{foo} and @samp{bar}, that matches
@samp{@var{a}foo@var{b}bar@var{c}}, where @var{a}, @var{b}, and
@var{c} can be any string including the empty string.
+@item flex
+@cindex @code{flex}, completion style
+This aggressive completion style, also known as @code{flx} or
+@code{fuzzy} or @code{scatter} completion, attempts to complete using
+in-order substrings. For example, it can consider @samp{foo} to match
+@samp{frodo} or @samp{fbarbazoo}.
+
@item initials
@cindex @code{initials}, completion style
This very aggressive completion style attempts to complete acronyms