Xah Talk Show 2021-04-18 emacs lisp. Fuzzy matching. Explore ido and helm source code

• highlight https://youtu.be/FC5qzH0yxyk?t=4461 exceptions in programing languages, not what you think it is Topics: • Write a command that let user select from predefined list of choices. Using ido mode's fuzzy matching. • Explain what the type of fuzzy matching ido is using. • Explain that we want a word based fuzzy matching, and order does not matter. • Explore helm M-x to see how it works. • Optional: see how ido implements fuzzy matching. • 〈Why I Hate Exceptions〉 [ http://xahlee.info/comp/why_i_hate_exceptions.html ]