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From: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
To: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  xenodasein@tutanota.de
Subject: Re: Collecting completion candidates from multiple files
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:14:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r19bllbs.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MtIu1vk--3-2@tutanota.de> (xenodasein's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:47:12 +0100 (CET)")

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

>
> I wondered about this also; is there built-in completion functionality that
> can collect all words or symbols from existing buffers of the same mode, or
> all existing buffers?

M-x find-library RET dabbrev RET

This built-in library provides hooks like
dabbrev-select-buffers-function.  Packages can customize it to return a
custom list of buffers.  For example, a mode for a programming language
that supports includes could implement a custom function that returns
buffers created from parsing includes recursively (something like Vim's
CTRL-P/CTRL-N, if I'm not mistaken).



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-12 20:48 Collecting completion candidates from multiple files Daniele Nicolodi
2022-01-12 23:19 ` Daniel Martín
2022-01-13  8:53   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-01-13 14:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-13 14:47       ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-13 15:14         ` Daniel Martín [this message]
2022-01-13 15:32           ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-13 17:37             ` Stefan Monnier

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