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Re: About Emacs features
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Javier |
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Re: About Emacs features |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:32:53 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/3.9.8-1-ARCH (x86_64)) |
To most straighforward way to complete a word is M-/ (ESC-/). It just
guesses from the words you previously typed. Press M-/ again to
change the choices for the word. It should work in recent versions of
emacs without configuring anything.
M-/ (translated from <escape> /) runs the command dabbrev-expand,
which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `dabbrev.el'.
It is bound to M-/.
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(dabbrev-expand ARG)
Expand previous word "dynamically".
Expands to the most recent, preceding word for which this is a prefix.
If no suitable preceding word is found, words following point are
considered. If still no suitable word is found, then look in the
buffers accepted by the function pointed out by variable
`dabbrev-friend-buffer-function'.
A positive prefix argument, N, says to take the Nth backward *distinct*
possibility. A negative argument says search forward.
If the cursor has not moved from the end of the previous expansion and
no argument is given, replace the previously-made expansion
with the next possible expansion not yet tried.
The variable `dabbrev-backward-only' may be used to limit the
direction of search to backward if set non-nil.
See also `dabbrev-abbrev-char-regexp' and C-M-/.