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Re: patch for possbility sorting: msg#00013

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Subject: Re: patch for possbility sorting

rpgoldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> In BEIRC, one can end up with an enormously long list of candidate
> possibilities for completing a command, because IRC has so many
> commands. The possibilities are not ordered at all, so the list is
> pretty much useless.
>
> The following patch to input-editing would fix this problem by sorting
> the set of possibilities alphabetically.

I deal with this by providing functions such as
COMPLETE-FROM-POSSIBILITIES with presorted lists of possibilities.


Paolo
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Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log - http://www.paoloamoroso.it/log


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