From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 16:21:32 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <87sk6394ib.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <28473645.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273262210 11695 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2010 19:56:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 19:56:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 21:56:49 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OATeu-0001Jg-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 21:56:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OATdW-0008F9-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:02 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1273242093 11780 143.93.54.11 (7 May 2010 14:21:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:21:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mCy9hcr3ixqUr24V4qoxSbdPdfI= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-204-026.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178039 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:73563 Archived-At: Dirk80 writes: > Thank you for your answers. This already helped me alot. > > > Xah Lee-2 wrote: >> >> it is already implemented. The command is lisp-complete-symbol, the >> shortcut is Meta+Tab. >> > > The lisp-complete-symbol function is nearly what I want. I don't know why > exactly, but I do not like the completion windows so much. I prefer the way > dabbrev-expand is doing it. Without using a completion window and just > rotating the possible completions when executing the command again. > > Is there also existing a function like lisp-expand-symbol? Or do I have to > write it myself? > > Thank you. > > Greetings, > Dirk Try `hippie-expand'. -ap