Re: completion

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm a little overwhelmed with the choice in auto completion options for
> emacs in buffers. What do you use and why?

Most of the time I just use dabbrev, because its simple, predictable and
most of all included. :)
hippie-expand should be just as well, it just does a little much at once
for my taste.  As I said, I prefer predictability.

Everything else depends greatly on what type of buffer you're editing.
Many modes have their own completion mechanisms that are usually good at
what they do (nxml does pure magic given schemas ...).

If you do text completion, Predictive Mode and Magpie seem popular.

If you program, don't forget the power of abbrevs and templates

> the completion-ui package
As the name says, that's a front-end designed to deal with the mess
created by the mentioned mechanisms.  (Each one has its own
look-and-feel and configuration, which is silly).
But right now, you'll probably have to write your own backends ...


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher