Emacs: Name Completion

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Emacs has many different word completion systems building. Here's a list of the most useful ones.

completion-at-point

Alt+x completion-at-pointCtrl+Alt+i
For completing the word under cursor. Mostly used for completing function names in programing language source code. This works best in emacs-lisp-mode for coding emacs lisp. Usually does not work for other languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, unless you install supporting packages.
emacs completion at point 2017 07 11
completion-at-point, with plain gnu emacs in emacs-lisp-mode.

hippie-expand

For expanding current word to any matching string that occurs in any existing buffers. [see Emacs: Hippie Expand]

Abbrev Mode

For expanding current word to any string, emoji, template, etc. You define the abbrevs. [see Emacs: Abbrev Mode by Lisp Code]

Completion for Minibuffer Prompts

For minibuffer prompt name completion. (command name, variable name, file name.) [see Emacs: icomplete mode, fido mode]

2012-11-29 thanks to Ba Manzi (杨贵龙) for a tip.

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