Re: company-mode help

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Could someone help me with company-mode please. I cant find much
>> documentation on how to use it and am not sure if "(company-mode)" is
>> sufficient. I understand I can call "company-mode" at any time, but is
>> there no "global-company-mode" type thing or utility function to turn it
>> on for common programme language types?
>
> I've added a global-company-mode in 0.4.1.
>
>> too), but do I have to do something special for it to complete structure
>> members in C/C++?
>
> The reason for this is that the structure member (after the -> or .) is
> considered a new symbol by Emacs, making it shorter than `company-minimum-prefix-length'.
>
>
> For 0.4.1, a workaround could be an electric command:
>
> (defun company-electric-dot ()
>   "Insert a dot and start completion, unless in a string or comment."
>   (interactive)
>   (insert-char ?. 1)
>   (unless (company-in-string-or-comment)
>     (company-auto-begin)))
>
> (defun company-electric-greater-than ()
>   "Insert a dot and start completion, unless in a string or comment."
>   (interactive)
>   (insert-char ?> 1)
>   (and (eq (char-before (1- (point))) ?-)
>        (not (company-in-string-or-comment))
>        (company-auto-begin)))
>
> (define-key c-mode-base-map "." 'company-electric-dot)
> (define-key c-mode-base-map ">" 'company-electric-greater-than)
> (define-key c++-mode-map ">" 'company-electric-greater-than)
>
>
> I'll figure out a more universal solution.
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>
>

Wonderful, thanks.


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