Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 16:41:31 GMT References: <1991Feb22.134323.20410@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <11032@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov's message of 17 Mar 91 20:41:39 GMT >>>>> On 17 Mar 91 20:41:39 GMT, torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) said: Chris> In article <1991Feb22.134323.20410@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> Chris> bnrmtl!lewis@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu writes: > - Guess-typing by the editor (I seem to have heard of that at one point) > would drive me insane because it would force me to continuously control > what's going on. Chris> I have no idea what this means. Maybe this GNU Emacs feature: ---- dabbrev-expand: ESC / Expand previous word "dynamically". Expands to the most recent, preceding word for which this is a prefix. If no suitable preceding word is found, words following point are considered. [...] If the cursor has not moved from the end of the previous expansion and no argument is given, replace the previously-made expansion with the next possible expansion not yet tried. ---- Also there's ispell-complete-word: Complete word at or before point [Part of the ispell add-on package for GNU Emacs], pops up a buffer of possible endings of the word to type in for you. You select one. ---- Or probably he meant GNU Emacs' abbrev-mode. "In abbrev mode, inserting an abbreviation causes it to expand and be replaced by its expansion." There are several pages of explanation of this in the manual. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364