From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sacha Chua Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autocompletion. Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:08:01 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <873cr9gocu.fsf@sachac.linuxboxen.org> References: <0jgfqug5poq70anpo7qspk793lgi7pudcl@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034601185 11189 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2002 13:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18151r-0002uH-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 181525-0003YS-00; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18150z-0002JD-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18150w-0002Eb-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cersa.admu.edu.ph ([202.138.180.158]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18150v-00028l-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from sachac.linuxboxen.org (unknown [192.168.0.7]) by cersa.admu.edu.ph (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B671C14D; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:12:01 +0800 (PHT) Original-Received: from sacha by sachac.linuxboxen.org with local (masqmail 0.2.11) id 1814wz-0jl-00; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:08:01 +0800 Original-To: quasiabhi@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <0jgfqug5poq70anpo7qspk793lgi7pudcl@4ax.com> (quasi's message of "Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:08:21 +0530") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2579 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2579 quasi writes: >>That would be hippie-expand, and I don't think it's bound by default. >>M-/ is bound to dabbrev-expand, though. > !!! And I type ~1000 lines of code without expand! BTW that is the > difference between debbrev-expand and hippie-expand, if any? hippie-expand checks against a list of functions in order to find possible expansions. dabbrev-expand completes against words already typed, and can be included in hippie-expand-try-functions-list - to be precise, `try-expand-dabbrev' is there. -- Sacha Chua - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci