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From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto-complete word
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:45:19 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <821vnyf5y0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cc0a0f5c0907300643p1b340852q95c6cb82ba8c8cd0@mail.gmail.com

sam jesse <revrvr@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
> I am running
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-09-07 on SOFT-MJASON
>
> under window XP.
>
> how can I complete a word that I am writing with out typing the rest of it
> specially when I wrote it before in the same buffer?
>
> thx

There are a couple of modes listed here 

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PredictiveMode

Or you could just try M-/ at point or specifically after the letters you
just typed.  That may be optimal if you don't want to install packages


 sivaram
 -- 





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30 13:43 auto-complete word sam jesse
2009-07-30 17:00 ` Matthew Ozor
2009-07-30 17:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]
2009-07-30 19:05   ` Drew Adams

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