did you confirm that fancy-dabbrev is not setting a dabbrev setting? On 5/16/22, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > by default hippie-expand cycles. to cycle backward you can undo. idk > if it or dabbrev has a menu. > > idk if this is useful but there is at least one menu package and many > completion packages at seemingly varying levels of interoperability. > some things have menus built in. there is some degree of modularity > in some packages, especially a set of minibuffer completion packages, > which is not waht you are looking for. i am confused by the many > options. so what i would start with is as an ignoramus [that's me] is > trying to find an overview of what's out there, dabbrev settings or a > hook for a menu, he settings, whether anything with a menu incluing a > menu package is intended to fit modularly into dabbrev, whether > dabbrev or he fit into some framework [company?] that has or can use a > menu. possibly you already tried those things but in cas nobod > anwers. > > > On 5/16/22, Ypo <ypun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks, Samuel >> >> I've uninstalled fancy-dabbrev, and it seems to work when I complete >> using M-/. But, now I don't have candidates to choose the completion. >> Any advice with this? >> >> Best regards, >> Ypo >> >> El 16/05/2022 a las 0:15, Samuel Wales escribió: >>> i do not use fancy-dabbrev, but i use dabbrev in hippie-expand. it >>> seems to do as you want. >>> >>> it should be possible to run hippie-expand with just dabbrev. it >>> might not be exactly the same because he might have its own version of >>> dabbrev. which might be what you want in this case. >>> >>> note that you have control over where dabbrev gets its data. idk if >>> that is a feature of vanilla dabbrev. >>> >>> i do not use any dabbrev settings or any he settings except the main >>> one for he. it is set to >>> >>> '(try-expand-dabbrev-visible >>> try-expand-dabbrev >>> try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers >>> try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill >>> >>> try-complete-lisp-symbol >>> ;;do i want this first? am i supposed to use another thing to >>> ;;complete from that point? >>> ;;try-complete-lisp-symbol-partially >>> >>> ;;try-expand-whole-kill >>> try-complete-file-name-partially >>> try-complete-file-name >>> hoka-try-complete-with-calc-result) >>> >>> >>> On 5/14/22, Ypo<ypun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I find dabbrev and fancy-dabbrev very useful to typing fast. But there >>>> is a problem I am not able to solve: When I apply an expansion while >>>> writing, the case is always that of the expansion, I can't make it to >>>> respect what I have written. An example: >>>> >>>> — (Typing) "Hel >>>> >>>> — (Offered expansion) "hello" >>>> >>>> — (What I get when accepting the expansion) "hello" >>>> >>>> — (What I wanted) "Hello" >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Ypo >>>> >>> > > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic > > A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: > https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com >
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