Re: Word Completion by Association

[Le Wang]

Artist wrote:

> Le Wang <lewang(at@)yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:<YUR8a.151574$Zr%.124748@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>...
>> Artist wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi I am looking for mechanism which allows me to complete the word
>> > based on association.  Example: I have only 4 words : [artist],
>> > [google], [emacs], [gnu]
>> > 
>> > then the 'representations'   r , o, m, u should be enough to complete
>> > the above words respectively. Now lets say that we add the word
>> > [glass] in my set. Then 'glass' can be represented by 'l' and if we
>> > add the word [late] it could be represented by 'lt'. It's like
>> > shorthand for emacs or 'auto abbreviation'.
>> > 
>> > The key is that emacs automatically defines the abbreviations and let
>> > us know.
>> > 
>> > Is it already  possible?  difficult? possible at all?
>> 
>> Your questions are nothing if not interesting. ;)
>> 
>> Have you given any thought as to how you would implement such a completion
>> system.
>> 
>> Currently substring completion is possible and it does most of what you ask
>> for.  See icomplete, mcomplete.
> 
> Hi,
>   You may call this method: Auto Abbreviation in a buffer.
>   When I type the text in buffer, it should automagically note each
> word and figure out different combination of it, and make combination
> index which when typed in buffer again should result in uniq word.
> 
> ex.. If I type:
> ---------- This is emacs
>  It should create an index file in such a way that
> when I type 'T' or 'h'   and hit some completion command it should
> complete with  'This'.
> 
> My word:  Completion Word
> Ti        This
> hi        This
> ts        This
> em        emacs
> mc        emacs
> is        is
> go        go
> es        emacs
> 
> 
> Thus I need to recall minimum letter of what I typed earlier. This is
> much like iswitchb interface with the addition that you can type any
> combination of letters, not necessarily sequentially.  When I add more
> words, above table will change on fly or with some command
> 
> I dont' know about mcomplete, but icomplete mode is not enough for
> this.

mcomplete does substring completion for minibuffer input.

I see that you want substring completing for buffer content.  I'm pretty 
certain this does not exist right now.  Maybe you can make it as a 
hippie-expand method.

--
Le