From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200802232259.m1NMx6rY027848@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87bq62qb35.fsf@jurta.org> <871w6yez0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204216947 8948 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 16:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 17:42:53 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 1JUlqO-0006Wn-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUlpr-0005AH-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUlpC-0004bs-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUlpA-0004ac-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUlpA-0004aH-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUlpA-0006uB-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JUlp9-0003vK-Gs; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <871w6yez0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:54:43 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90732 Archived-At: They seem like two implementations of the same thing; is there a reason to have both? dabbrev is a "standard" feature, documented in the manual, with a standard key binding. hippie-expand is more obscure. It may well be that hippie-expand can do everything dabbrev does and more. But the crucial question is whether it is an upward-compatible dabbrev replacement convenent for people like me that use dabbrev. (I don't know the answer.)