Helmut Eller <e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
Dirk Gerrits <dirk@dirkgerrits.com> writes:
Well I didn't know about it. Now that I do, I'll see if I like it.
People like me, who don't it, can set slime-complete-symbol-function to 'slime-simple-complete-symbol. This works more like Emacs' default completion and doesn't expand abbreviations. The other difference is that the simple variant only completes the string _before_ point, not the around point.
I have updated the manual with information about completion. Exerpt: `slime-complete-symbol-function' The function to use for completion of Lisp symbols. Two completion styles are available. The default `slime-complete-symbol*' performs completion "in parallel" over the hyphen-delimited sub-words of a symbol name. Formally this means that `a-b-c' can complete to any symbol matching the regular expression `^a.*-b.*-c.*' (where "dot" matches anything but a hyphen). Examples give a more intuitive feeling: * `m-v-b' completes to `multiple-value-bind'. * `w-open' is ambiguous: it completes to either `with-open-file' or `with-open-stream'. The symbol is expanded to the longest common completion (`with-open-') and the point is placed at the first point of ambiguity, which in this case is the end. * `w--stream' completes to `with-open-stream'. The alternative is `slime-simple-complete-symbol', which completes in the usual Emacs way. I hope that explains the "fancy" completion style, if not then please ask! I think it's pretty subtle (my first implementation was wildly wrong). -Luke