From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:35:03 +0900 Message-ID: <87pruhex54.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <200802232259.m1NMx6rY027848@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87bq62qb35.fsf@jurta.org> <871w6yez0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <47C5FB68.7000709@gnu.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204158950 25403 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 00:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 01:36:16 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 1JUWkx-0004sk-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:36:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWkR-0002g6-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWjz-0002RP-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWjy-0002Qi-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUWjx-0002Qd-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUWjq-0004aw-F6; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-97-013.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.97.13] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JUWjo-0001yM-1A; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:35:04 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E7A02FF7; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:35:03 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <47C5FB68.7000709@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:08:08 +0000") Original-Lines: 18 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:90676 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > 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. So is hippie-expand pretty much a superset of dabbrev? If so, wouldn't it make sense to only have hippie-expand, perhaps renamed, with a default configuration that only includes dabbrev functionality? That would avoid the current argument over whether dabbrev should be expanded, or a current dabbrev binding switched to hippie-expand (implementing features by changing local bindings is generally a bad method because it's rather brittle). -Miles -- Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.