From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 20:03:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc6f41c1-5c1f-453b-b4a4-3112ea07fb0a@u20g2000pru.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9.1273238866.2075.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On May 7, 2:45 am, Dirk80 <d...@dirkundsari.de> wrote:
> Thank you for your answers. This already helped me alot.
>
> Xah Lee-2 wrote:
>
> > it is already implemented. The command is lisp-complete-symbol, the
> > shortcut is Meta+Tab.
>
> The lisp-complete-symbol function is nearly what I want. I don't know why
> exactly, but I do not like the completion windows so much. I prefer the way
> dabbrev-expand is doing it. Without using a completion window and just
> rotating the possible completions when executing the command again.
>
> Is there also existing a function like lisp-expand-symbol? Or do I have to
> write it myself?
>
> Thank you.
Andreas mentioned hippie-expand, i haven't really used. There a few
other packages that do expansion. (see emacswiki.org )
might checkout this tutorial...
• How To Implement Keyword Completion in Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_keyword_completion.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.26.1273152642.10435.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-06 17:05 ` Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer Xah Lee
2010-05-06 19:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-07 9:45 ` Dirk80
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1273238866.2075.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-07 14:21 ` Andreas Politz
2010-05-08 3:03 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2010-05-07 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-06 13:30 Dirk80
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