What customizations are available for helm's matching?

[pedz]

I tried asking this question on the Emacs Stack Exchange but didn't get any replies.

I've been looking for a list of options that control how helm matches and sorts the "source" list. Here are some examples that I've hit over the past week.

In today's example, I was using helm-projectile-find-file looking for gif.rb and Helm takes the . the same as a space. Rather I needed to type qif\.rb to get Helm to narrow its focus like I wanted it. Is there an option that controls this to make dot work as a normal character?

A few days ago, I was working on my Emacs init files which I've put into Org mode files. In that case, when I typed foo using helm-find-files, the resulting list would include foo.org, foo.el, and foo.elc. I'd like to never see the foo.elc file and I'd prefer to have the foo.org be before the foo.el file. Indeed, if both of them exist, utopia would be for foo.el to be in different "source".

Last, if there is an exact match in the list, I'd like it to be picked first. Very often I don't use Helm like I should (pilot error) and I do C-x foodog and whack the return and expect foodog to have been selected but sometimes it isn't. Rather it is Helm's best guess of what it thought I wanted. Helm's history plays a part in this as well. What is odd in I see in other cases, Helm seems to do this -- pull the exact match up to the top hit.

Thank you for all your help.

[thierryvolpiatto]

Perry Smith ***@***.***> writes:

I tried asking this question on the Emacs Stack Exchange but didn't get any replies. I've been looking for a list of options that control how helm matches and sorts the "source" list. Here are some examples that I've hit over the past week. In today's example, I was using helm-projectile-find-file looking for gif.rb and Helm takes the . the same as a space. Rather I needed to type qif\.rb to get Helm to narrow its focus like I wanted it. Is there an option that controls this to make dot work as a normal character?

Don't know how helm-projectile-find-file works, but for helm-find-files, see below.

A few days ago, I was working on my Emacs init files which I've put into Org mode files. In that case, when I typed foo using helm-find-files, the resulting list would include foo.org, foo.el, and foo.elc. I'd like to never see the foo.elc file and I'd prefer to have the foo.org be before the foo.el file. Indeed, if both of them exist, utopia would be for foo.el to be in different "source".

In the helm directory I have .el and .elc files, if I want to match ONLY helm.elc, I add a space and enter "helm\.elc": /home/me/helm/ helm\.elc By default helm-find-files is fuzzy matching, it is fine in most cases, but in such case it is better to regexp match, by adding a space, you switch to multimatch which is regexp based.

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Last, if there is an exact match in the list, I'd like it to be picked first. Very often I don't use Helm like I should (pilot error) and I do C-x foodog and whack the return and expect foodog to have been selected but sometimes it isn't. Rather it is Helm's best guess of what it thought I wanted. Helm's history plays a part in this as well. What is odd in I see in other cases, Helm seems to do this -- pull the exact match up to the top hit. Thank you for all your help. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.*Message ID: ***@***.***>

-- Thierry