Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!akhanna
From: akhanna@bbn.COM (Atul Khanna)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: I want dabbrev-expand to search other buffers
Keywords: dabbrev-expand
Message-ID: <6228@cc5.bbn.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 05:14:27 GMT
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I just discovered dabbrev-expand the other day.  An awesome command,
which I immediately bound to the biggest function key on my bitgraph.
For those of you who do not know about it, here's the documenation:

dabbrev-expand:
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.

A positive prefix argument, N, says to take the Nth backward DISTINCT
possibility.  A negative argument says search forward.  The variable
dabbrev-backward-only may be used to limit the direction of search to
backward if set non-nil.

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.


Anyway, the command would be much more useful if it could be told to
search for a match in a set of specified buffers, as opposed to just
the current one.  Has anyone done this or know how to do it?

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