Re: Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On May 7, 2:45 am, Dirk80 <d...@dirkundsari.de> wrote:
> 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.

Andreas mentioned hippie-expand, i haven't really used. There a few
other packages that do expansion. (see emacswiki.org )

might checkout this tutorial...

• How To Implement Keyword Completion in Emacs
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_keyword_completion.html

  Xah
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