From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:14:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ir08bx79.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JUlp9-0003vK-Gs@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:35 -0500")
On 2008-02-28 16:41 +0000, Richard Stallman wrote:
> They seem like two implementations of the same thing; is there a reason
> to have both?
>
> dabbrev is a "standard" feature, documented in the manual, with a
> standard key binding. hippie-expand is more obscure.
>
> It may well be that hippie-expand can do everything dabbrev does and
> more. But the crucial question is whether it is an upward-compatible
> dabbrev replacement convenent for people like me that use dabbrev.
> (I don't know the answer.)
The most convincing way is to try the following setup and see if you
have noticed any difference.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(global-set-key (kbd "M-/") 'hippie-expand)
(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
'(try-expand-dabbrev
try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers
try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Best,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-28 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 22:59 dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-24 9:26 ` Leo
2008-02-27 22:49 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-27 23:22 ` Leo
2008-02-27 23:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-28 0:08 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-28 0:35 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-28 8:21 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-28 8:29 ` Leo
2008-02-28 16:41 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-28 21:14 ` Leo [this message]
2008-02-29 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 17:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-25 8:13 ` Bastien
2008-02-27 0:18 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-27 1:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-27 11:28 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-27 14:38 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-27 15:04 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-27 15:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-01 13:31 Richard Stallman
2008-07-21 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-07-21 16:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-21 16:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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