Re: Autocompletion of Emacs Lisp Symbols in Buffer

[Andreas Politz]

Dirk80 <dirk@dirkundsari.de> writes:

> Thank you for your answers. This already helped me alot.
>
>
> Xah Lee-2 wrote:
>> 
>> it is already implemented. The command is lisp-complete-symbol, the
>> shortcut is Meta+Tab.
>> 
>
> The lisp-complete-symbol function is nearly what I want. I don't know why
> exactly, but I do not like the completion windows so much. I prefer the way
> dabbrev-expand is doing it. Without using a completion window and just
> rotating the possible completions when executing the command again.
>
> Is there also existing a function like lisp-expand-symbol? Or do I have to
> write it myself?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk

Try `hippie-expand'.

-ap