Comments on: Customizing Dabbrev

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Hi Zhangda, do you mean the autocomplete framework? Yes I used it for about 4 weeks before I decided that, while it is prettier than standard dabbrev, it doesn’t provide any advantage and provides some disadvantages, e.g. in the minibuffer.

By: zhangda

zhangda — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:43:19 +0000

I wonder did you try the package auto-completion?

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:46:15 +0000

@Billy – drat – you’re right. I was careless in my editing earlier. The first regex should have omitted the [^ ]* part as we only need to ignore = and *. Thanks for pointing that out – I’ve corrected the post.

I’ve also amended your comment to make it clearer you were quoting my post. I hope that’s okay.

@Trey – I tried out hippie-expand briefly but didn’t find it a huge step up from dabbrev. Are there compelling advantages or is it just that I’m used to the way dabbrev expands things?

By: Trey Jackson

Trey Jackson — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:56:58 +0000

I’d forgotten about that variable. FYI, if you want to use hippie-expand, you can do something similar – I just wrote about it on my blog here: http://trey-jackson.blogspot.com/2009/05/emacs-tip-29-customizing-hippe-expand.html

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:35:55 +0000

The way to fix this behaviour is by setting dabbrev-abbrev-skip-leading-regexp

(setq dabbrev-abbrev-skip-leading-regexp “[^ ]*[=*]“)

Okay, you think, this doesn’t affect me – I don’t use muse (why not?) How about if you’re writing some html/xml.

(setq dabbrev-abbrev-skip-leading-regexp “[^ ]*[=*]“)

Huh? The two setq are identical, no?