; * etc/NEWS (New 'flex' completion style): New entry

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1d79b05bc93dbd256926ee17965cd56c7bc1e975..73332a8a131c382ae07eb9a5f23fa12adb6a5583 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -266,6 +266,12 @@ When non-nil, 'switch-to-buffer' uses 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' that
 respects display actions specified by 'display-buffer-alist' and
 'display-buffer-overriding-action'.
 
+** New 'flex' completion style
+An implementation of popular "flx/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
+matches strings where the pattern appears as a subsequence.  Put
+simply, makes "foo" complete to both "barfoo" and "frodo".  Add 'flex'
+to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it.
+
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 * Editing Changes in Emacs 27.1