Hi Andreas, Barry, Hi Emacs-Pythonistas, >>being inclined to drop that feature >> >>https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-mode/+bug/1001328 >> >>Emacs provides dabbrev-expand, which is Python-agnostic but fairly >>effectiv. Otherwise the buffers content needs to be evaluated - with >>means, it must be correct already. > >I'm probably not qualified to say whether the feature should be kept >or not, since I use dabbrev exclusively.
Since I have contributed quite some code for Python code completion in Emacs, I feel a bit concerned by this question, so let me say a few things about the current state of completion. It's been two years ago when I contributed my completion code, but still, it is quite hard to get a working Emacs-Python-Environment having code completion. I think that a novice (or non-expert) user will have problems getting it working. Theoretically it could be quite easy, just create a ~/.emacs.d/init.el file with the following contents: (require 'pymacs) (setq py-load-pymacs-p t) (require 'auto-complete-config) (ac-config-default) This is for code completing with an auto-complete pop-up-menu. If you prefer a less obtrusive completion using only the TAB key (as I do), then use these lines: (require 'pymacs) (setq py-load-pymacs-p t) (setq py-complete-function 'py-complete-completion-at-point) (setq py-complete-set-keymap-p t) So far so good. However, the problem is, that you must have at least pymacs 0.25, which is unfortunately not part of Ubuntu 14.04 (to name a popular distribution). In this case, you'll have to get pymacs 0.25 (and emacsen-common) from the upcoming Ubuntu 14.10. So with a standard Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation, it will not work. Let's hope that things improve with Ubuntu 14.10, then users will at least have all preconditions for a working code completion. However, I think that it will be still too hard for the normal user to make it work. Why not have a simple configuration option, which will allow users to enable code completion by a simple mouse click? Such a function should set up all variables and check if the required packages are available and warn the user if not. I must admit that I do not use the Emacs package management (ELPA), I would rather rely on the packages of my Linux distribution, but maybe ELPA could be helpful to get all those prerequisites. Regards, Urs _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
