Difference between company-dabbrev and company-dabbrev-code

Difference between company-dabbrev and company-dabbrev-code

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

I have a problem understanding the difference between company-dabbrev and company-dabbrev-code.  
They both shom completion candidates inside contents of open buffers.  How can I see a difference 
between the two?

Re: Difference between company-dabbrev and company-dabbrev-code

[Tassilo Horn]

Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I have a problem understanding the difference between company-dabbrev
> and company-dabbrev-code.  They both shom completion candidates inside
> contents of open buffers.  How can I see a difference between the two?

I guess the difference is documented in their docstrings.  I don't use
them but most probably company-dabbrev uses any text as possible
completion candidates whereas company-dabbrev-code uses only the words
occurring in code, i.e., not comment text.

For example, assume you have

    ;; This is my nice function.
    (defun foo (bar)
      (+1 bar))

then company-dabbrev will also complete to This, is, my, nice, and
function whereas company-dabbrev-code will not (unless those words also
occur in code, e.g., as function or variable names).

Bye,
  Tassilo