From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 20:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <28473645.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273290112 21375 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2010 03:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 03:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 08 05:41:47 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 1OAavB-0000vq-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 05:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OAavB-00044M-Fy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 23:41:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u20g2000pru.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1273287788 2038 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2010 03:03:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 03:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u20g2000pru.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1064 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178049 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:73573 Archived-At: On May 7, 2:45=C2=A0am, Dirk80 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 w= ay > 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 t= o > 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... =E2=80=A2 How To Implement Keyword Completion in Emacs http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_keyword_completion.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84