From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Raffaele Ricciardi'" <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: hippie-expand/dabbrev-expand: how to select a previous expansion?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:05:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0DE138F8C5AB4C8B887D5F16B8614E22@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6qujvFbibU1@mid.individual.net>
> when running dabbrev-expand or hippie-expand, sometimes I
> accidentally skip the desired completion. Is there a way to
> go back to a previous completion in either command? After
> looking at the Emacs Manual and at the source code of
> hippie-exp.el, and dabbrev.el, I would say there isn't.
AFAIK, there is not. Cycling by repeating `M-/' is pretty primitive, and yes,
AFAIK it only goes forward.
You might try `dabbrev-completion' (`C-M-/') instead of `dabbrev-expand'
(`M-/').
Or if you use Icicles, then in Icicle mode `C-M-/' gives you both completion and
cycling. You can cyle in either order, and you can re-sort or filter the
candidates in various ways. (And you can of course pick any completion
candidate directly, without cycling.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 18:31 hippie-expand/dabbrev-expand: how to select a previous expansion? Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-07-19 18:05 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-07-19 18:07 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.5182.1342721252.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-19 19:34 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-07-20 5:22 ` C K Kashyap
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