Re: Abbrev suggestions - feedback appreciated

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> You could avoid constructing the list by passing `word` to
>> absug-get-active-abbrev-expansions and have it check equality as it
>> goes.
> That's a good optimization, thanks! At least as long as I am not trying
> to tackle multi-word expansions. In that case, I don't know on
> beforehand how many words to match. Again, surely possible to
> solve... One way might be to save not one but, say, ten previous words,
> and send that in to the function that will look for expansions matching
> that. It would of course break on eleven words and above...
> Any clever ideas?

Actually, my "clever" idea was that you don't read any word at all: just
go though the existing abbreviations, and check for each one of the if
the text before point matches the expansion.

Admittedly, I don't think we currently have a fast implementation of the
equivalent of (looking-back (regexp-quote expansion)), so I don't know
how well it will perform.


        Stefan