Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: > The languages we use to communicate contain a large amount of > redundancy. Given the first few letters of a word, for instance, it's > not too difficult to predict what should come next. Try it! You can > probably easily guess how to fill in the missing letters in the > following sentence: > > Giv th fir fe lett o a wor i no diffi t predi wh shou com nex. > > This is even more true of languages used to communicate with > computers, which typically have very restricted vocabularies and > rigidly defined grammars. > > Predictive completion exploits this redundancy by attempting to > complete what you are trying to type before you've finished typing > it. It predicts what you're trying to type from context, and from the > frequency with which you've used words in the past. (Something like > the IntelliSense feature in some IDEs, but on steroids.) > > The predictive mode package adds a predictive completion minor mode > to Emacs. The sources are too big to post here, but are available > from: > > http://www.dr-qubit.org/download.php?file=predictive/predictive.tar.gz > > The package's web page can be found at: > > http://www.dr-qubit.org/emacs.php
Looks interesting, but rather like pabbrev.el which does much the same thing. Have you tried both? Phil _______________________________________________ Gnu-emacs-sources mailing list Gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources