Thanks, Samuel. I am trying Company. It works with dabbrev out of the box, and I understand its options for cases, so I get what I intended. Best regards, Ypo El 17/05/2022 a las 1:43, Samuel Wales escribió: > did you confirm that fancy-dabbrev is not setting a dabbrev setting? > > On 5/16/22, Samuel Wales wrote: >> by default hippie-expand cycles. to cycle backward you can undo. idk >> if it or dabbrev has a menu. >> >> idk if this is useful but there is at least one menu package and many >> completion packages at seemingly varying levels of interoperability. >> some things have menus built in. there is some degree of modularity >> in some packages, especially a set of minibuffer completion packages, >> which is not waht you are looking for. i am confused by the many >> options. so what i would start with is as an ignoramus [that's me] is >> trying to find an overview of what's out there, dabbrev settings or a >> hook for a menu, he settings, whether anything with a menu incluing a >> menu package is intended to fit modularly into dabbrev, whether >> dabbrev or he fit into some framework [company?] that has or can use a >> menu. possibly you already tried those things but in cas nobod >> anwers. >> >> >> On 5/16/22, Ypo wrote: >>> Thanks, Samuel >>> >>> I've uninstalled fancy-dabbrev, and it seems to work when I complete >>> using M-/. But, now I don't have candidates to choose the completion. >>> Any advice with this? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Ypo >>> >>> El 16/05/2022 a las 0:15, Samuel Wales escribió: >>>> i do not use fancy-dabbrev, but i use dabbrev in hippie-expand. it >>>> seems to do as you want. >>>> >>>> it should be possible to run hippie-expand with just dabbrev. it >>>> might not be exactly the same because he might have its own version of >>>> dabbrev. which might be what you want in this case. >>>> >>>> note that you have control over where dabbrev gets its data. idk if >>>> that is a feature of vanilla dabbrev. >>>> >>>> i do not use any dabbrev settings or any he settings except the main >>>> one for he. it is set to >>>> >>>> '(try-expand-dabbrev-visible >>>> try-expand-dabbrev >>>> try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers >>>> try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill >>>> >>>> try-complete-lisp-symbol >>>> ;;do i want this first? am i supposed to use another thing to >>>> ;;complete from that point? >>>> ;;try-complete-lisp-symbol-partially >>>> >>>> ;;try-expand-whole-kill >>>> try-complete-file-name-partially >>>> try-complete-file-name >>>> hoka-try-complete-with-calc-result) >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5/14/22, Ypo wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> I find dabbrev and fancy-dabbrev very useful to typing fast. But there >>>>> is a problem I am not able to solve: When I apply an expansion while >>>>> writing, the case is always that of the expansion, I can't make it to >>>>> respect what I have written. An example: >>>>> >>>>> — (Typing) "Hel >>>>> >>>>> — (Offered expansion) "hello" >>>>> >>>>> — (What I get when accepting the expansion) "hello" >>>>> >>>>> — (What I wanted) "Hello" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Ypo >>>>> >> >> -- >> The Kafka Pandemic >> >> A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: >> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com >> >