From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:08:08 +0000 Message-ID: <47C5FB68.7000709@gnu.org> References: <200802232259.m1NMx6rY027848@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87bq62qb35.fsf@jurta.org> <871w6yez0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204157336 20842 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 00:08:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 01:09:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUWKl-00058h-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:09:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWKE-0001tT-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWK9-0001sX-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWK7-0001rm-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWK7-0001rj-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUWK3-0008JQ-7K; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:27 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 50262953/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGuKxUdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIrls X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 28 Feb 2008 00:08:13 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <871w6yez0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90674 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Juri Linkov writes: > >> It would be easier to implement this in hippie-expand because it has all >> necessary infrastructure. >> > > What exactly is the relationship between dabbrev and hippie-expand? > > They seem like two implementations of the same thing; is there a reason > to have both? > They are quite different. dabbrev completes based on existing text in the buffer (or multiple buffers with a prefix arg). hippie-expand completes using multiple methods, which may or may not include dabbrev.