From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: irenezerafa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#51819: The Senselessness of Emacs Company Mode Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:00:21 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: irenezerafa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34569"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Carlos Pita , "51819@debbugs.gnu.org" <51819@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 17 04:01:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBCW-0008ov-GM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 04:01:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42200 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBCV-0000cb-CN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBC2-0000cQ-Ua for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBC1-000106-Sc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBC1-000745-NO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:01:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: irenezerafa Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 51819 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 51819-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B51819.163711803227093 (code B ref 51819); Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 51819) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Nov 2021 03:00:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59595 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBBY-00072v-5a for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-4318.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.18]:45107) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnBBV-00072b-RN for 51819@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:00:30 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1637118023; bh=6DJTywhMhA8eL3zllQF/CnYfAj4rEDOi6AJN73tbD7E=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:From; b=C6ukp12IW/CBMKfmbukMSINNwYoVotCi/qF/W2MGlvK9Jd+NiVZX1KlvzNSQPEAWb DPkS+dy2nLHTCqItuY/oubbDXtjfziFnnptmgyhhU52wO+awRHHbZxMz4C5vfx1953 mNB5CUXRisRFbDdS1JUa2ogVXiSctDwlM84Gndpc= X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" X-ACL-Warn: , irenezerafa Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:220174 Archived-At: =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 Original Me= ssage =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 On Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 at 2:30 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > > I am very interested in completion of words as I write documents. > Caveat: I'm not following this thread. I just > happened upon that sentence. > Wrt your expressed interest, I assume you already > know about `dabbrev'. You might also be interested in the very old librar= y` completion.el'. It's still part of Emacs and still > useful, precisely for what you describe: completing > words you actually use when writing . > The "doc" for it is a rambling description in the > file header, but it's simple and understandable. > There's nothing fancy at all, and you might find it > quaint, but it can be quite useful. You can pretty > much complete everything you type. It has a > dabbrev-like behavior, but it can also automatically > persist words you've used etc. > I'd say give it a try. You just might find it useful. > `M-x find-library completion'. Do I need to install anything, or put anything in my emacs init? I like the "watches all the words that you type and remembers them".