Re: how to get the exhaustive list of auto completions while editing in .c or .cpp file.

[Nordlöw]

On 20 Nov, 04:55, "Anand S. Dhankshirur" <a...@cdotb.ernet.in> wrote:
> I have one more question
> GVIM, provides the auto completions with the exhaustive list of all the
> possibilities.
> while typing in .c file
> (for example GS_AM_ will give all the auto completions for all the
> tokens strating with GS_AM.)
> In emacs also M-/ gives the completions which are there in current buffer.
> Furhter it gives the case insensitive one.(the cases are ignored).
> But it will not give the completions from the TAGS file
> It does not consider other files and buffers.
> Is there any way to do it in emacs.?

Add the following to .emacs
(provide 'hippie-exp)

And the customize the variable hippie-expand-try-functions-list like
for example
(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
      '(try-expand-dabbrev-visible  ;from visible parts of all windows
        try-expand-dabbrev          ;from current buffer
        try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers  ;from all other buffers
        try-expand-tag                  ;Note: Expand from "TAGS"
table.
      )

Then finally do
M-x hippie-expand

/Nordlöw