From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-complete word Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:45:19 +0530 Message-ID: <821vnyf5y0.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248974174 25697 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 17:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:16:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 19:16:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWZEc-00054y-BO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:16:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWZEb-0001Tk-G1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWZEE-0001TV-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWZE9-0001RJ-VC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35919 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWZE9-0001RC-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36760 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWZE9-0007Ji-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MWZE6-0003E7-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:15:34 +0000 Original-Received: from 122.167.80.169 ([122.167.80.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:15:34 +0000 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.80.169 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:15:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.80.169 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MQQCWQQz954yuhgBiH73d/TdH2I= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66531 Archived-At: sam jesse 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 --