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Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer
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Leo |
Subject: |
Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:26:13 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.130000 Emacs/23.0.60 (20080222) Fedora 8 (gnu/linux) |
On 2008-02-23 22:59 +0000, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> A lot of times when using dabbrev-expand in the minibuffer, the most
> desirable expansion is something from the minibuffer history.
> But dabbrev-expand does not search the minibuffer history...
> If for example you use M-x compile a lot with a lot of very complex
> command lines, having dabbrev-expand look in the minibuffer history is
> very useful.
> (This is not unlike what you suffer from when using bash: no dabbrev-expand
> at all).
>
> So a long time ago I wrote this hack to put the minibuffer history in a
> buffer and tell dabbrev to search it too.
>
> (setq dabbrev-select-buffers-function 'my-minibuffer-setup-dabbrev-buffers)
>
> (defun my-minibuffer-setup-dabbrev-buffers ()
> (let ((buf (get-buffer-create " *dabbrev history* ")))
> (save-excursion
> (set-buffer buf)
> (erase-buffer)
> ;; dabbrev looks for text only in buffers. Put the minibuffer
> ;; history in a buffer, so that dabbrev can look at it.
> (mapc (lambda (arg)
> (insert arg "\n"))
> (if minibuffer-history-variable
> (eval minibuffer-history-variable)
> minibuffer-history)))
> ;; Put the minibuffer history at the beginning of the buffer list
> ;; that dabbrev will look at.
> (append (list buf) (dabbrev--select-buffers))))
>
> I am not sure what is the proper way to integrate this functionality,
> it would be great if someone that knows dabbrev could either add
> something similar to this code, or do it in a better way and provide it
> by default.
It looks like the best way to integrate this is with hippie-expand,
probably not dabbrev-expand. Just a thought.
>
> Thanks
>
> --dan
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- dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/23
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer,
Leo <=
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/27
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Leo, 2008/02/27
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Miles Bader, 2008/02/27
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/27
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Miles Bader, 2008/02/27
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/28
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Leo, 2008/02/28
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/28
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Leo, 2008/02/28
- Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/29