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• emacs-fuzzy-module
• Installation
• Building on Windows

emacs-fuzzy-module

An emacs module for doing fuzzy filtering of a list.

I created this because I was encountering performance problems with ELisp-based solutions like flx-ido. I figure native module performance should be much better.

Installation

1. To build, make sure you have Jam installed:

sudo apt install jam

1. Open Jamrules and add the path to your emacs/src to the HDRS variable. Ensure there is a space between the ; and your path

You can also run jam -sEMACS_SRC_DIR=path/to/your/emacs/src instead (ignore step 3).

1. Run jam in emacs-fuzzy-module directory

2. Open macoyFuzzy.el and make the module-load path reference macoyFuzzy.so (wherever you built it)

3. Evaluate macoyFuzzy.el

4. Add the following to your .emacs:

(require 'macoy-fuzzy-ido)
(ido-mode 1)
(ido-everywhere 1)
(macoy-fuzzy-ido-mode 1)

Building on Windows

The easiest way to build is to use Linux and cross compile via mingw64. To do this, just set CROSS_COMPILE_WINDOWS when building to automatically use the mingw toolset: jam -sCROSS_COMPILE_WINDOWS=true

If you don't have jam, you can build things manually (this list may get out of sync):

• gcc -c fuzzy.c -ggdb3 -Wall -fPIC -O0 -I. -I. -I../emacs/emacs/src

• gcc -c utils.c -ggdb3 -Wall -fPIC -O0 -I. -I. -I../emacs/emacs/src

• gcc -c macoyFuzzy.c -ggdb3 -Wall -fPIC -O0 -I. -I. -I../emacs/emacs/src

• gcc -shared -o macoyFuzzy.dll fuzzy.o utils.o macoyFuzzy.o

If you do have Jam but it complains about the environment, set the environment first, e.g. this is what I did: env JAM_TOOLSET=MINGW ../../nonRepos/jam-2.6/jam.exe -j4 -q