RE: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer

[Drew Adams]

> From: Richard Stallman Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:32 AM
> When I tried
>
>     (global-set-key (kbd "M-/") 'hippie-expand)
>     (setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
>           '(try-expand-dabbrev
>             try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers
>             try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill))
> 
> I found it broke the feature that you can type M-SPC M-/ to pull
> in successive words.  I use that often, so this proved
> unacceptable.
> 
> Maybe that feature can be put into hippie-expand.

Interesting; never thought of doing that (M-SPC M-/). It might help users to
mention this possibility in the Emacs manual.

BTW, was there any followup on adding this to hippie-expand? The thread seems to
have petered out.