On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:43:11AM +1100, Jan Alonzo wrote:
> Predictive is a minor-mode, text-completion package for Emacs. When enabled,
> predictive mode exploits the redundancy inherent in languages in order to
> complete words you are typing before you've finished typing them (somewhat
> like the IntelliSense feature in some IDEs). It is highly customisable, and
Sorry, but I found the content of the above parens to be misleading.
The main point of IntelliSense [1] is not about the actual completion
which type the word after you started typing it, is more about where to
find the possible completions and, in particular to find them via some
kind of representation of a codebase (e.g. the list of all methods
belonging to the class of the instance named to the left of a '.').
So, I ask you: either this is what "predictive" does for Emacs, maybe in
some programmable way (and would be like Vim's omnicompletion feature)
or it "just" complete in a single way using the word in the current
buffer (as plain Vim's autocompletion) and then it would be better do
describe it as "autocompletion".
Cheers.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliSense
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