Is there a way to get flex orderless completions?

[pushqrdx]

I wonder if it's possible to set orderless to match package-delete by typing either padelete and/or delepack
setting completion style to orderless-flex only achieves the former

[oantolin]

Well, if you are willing to add spaces, pa delete and dele pack both match package-delete even with just the literal matching style. I think this is what I recommend: turn off flex, and just add spaces to your input. You can do it liberally, for example, I never remember if the command is package-auto-remove or package-autoremove so I conservatively type au re pa and it would match either way.

But if you really want adeeeplt to match package-delete, you can replace the orderless-pattern-compiler:

(defun orderless-ultraflex (pattern &optional _styles _dispatchers)
  (mapcar #'string pattern))

(advice-add 'orderless-pattern-compiler :override #'orderless-ultraflex)

I suspect you won't really like the letter matching in absolutely any order.

[pushqrdx]

@oantolin yeah i knew about adding spaces i just thought that just like i can type padelete to get package-delete there might be a way to also type deletepa to get the same result, if this is not the case then feel free to close this

[oantolin]

there might be a way to also type deletepa to get the same result

You can try the advice in my previous comment, I'd say that is a way to get the same result.

[pushqrdx]

@oantolin for me it just started matching everything, in kinda random way

[oantolin]

Well, not everything, just things with those letters in any order, which is what I thought you wanted.

But yes, that does typically lead to way too many matches, which is why I predicted you wouldn't like it. For my taste even flex matching produces too many matches.