Re: completion.el users?

[Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@ubuntu.com>]

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Ah. I was confused. Sorry for that.

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > Wasn't completion.el forked to helm, which
> > obsoleted it?
>
> No.  No relation.  (Helm replaced Anything.)
>
> From the Commentary of completion.el:
>
> -----------8<----------
>
> After you type a few characters, pressing the "complete" key
> inserts the rest of the word you are likely to type.
>
> This watches all the words that you type and remembers them.
> When typing a new word, pressing "complete" (meta-return)
> "completes" the word by inserting the most recently used
> word that begins with the same characters.  If you press
> meta-return repeatedly, it cycles through all the words it
> knows about.
>
> If you like the completion then just continue typing, it is
> as if you entered the text by hand.  If you want the
> inserted extra characters to go away, type control-w or
> delete.  More options are described below.
>
> The guesses are made in the order of the most
> recently "used".  Typing in a word and then typing a
> separator character (such as a space) "uses" the word.  So
> does moving a cursor over the word.  If no words are found,
> it uses an extended version of the dabbrev style completion.
>
> You automatically save the completions you use to a file
> between sessions.
>
> Completion enables programmers to enter longer, more
> descriptive variable names while typing fewer keystrokes
> than they normally would.
>
> ...
>
>


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Vibhav Pant
vibhavp@ubuntu.com
"0x2B | ~ 0x2B (Hamlet, Shakespeare)"

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