From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs features Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:54:24 +0100 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <52d46091$0$2119$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: <8738krv9uv.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389650111 16079 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 21:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:55:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 22:55:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2pTb-00020T-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2pTa-00072U-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:55:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.ecp.fr!news.muarf.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp2-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2014 22:54:25 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1389650065 news-1.free.fr 2119 213.41.244.197:38088 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203110 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95379 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg in gnu.emacs.help: > For "auto-complete", you can use abbrev, as mentioned, but I don't > know if there is a "dynamic" auto-complete feature like in some of > those M$ IDEs where you define a variable (or create a button, with > old-school Hungarian notation to keep track of one zillion objects) > and then just type the beginning of the name to get suggestions, and > then hit enter to complete. Auto Complete is quite popular: http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/ Other packages are listed here (under Text Completion): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion There are also a few per-language specialized packages, eg Jedi for Python: http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/ or Robe or Rsense for Ruby, and so on... -- DW