Re: ERC completion

[Stefan Monnier]

> Nowadays, I have in my .emacs the following, which actually works fine
> but which I now realize is utterly wrong :)

> (setq tab-always-indent 'complete)
> (defun my-dabbrev-expand ()
>   (when (and (not (bolp))
>            (looking-at "\\_>"))
>     (dabbrev-expand nil)))
> (defun my-dabbrev-expand-and-nil ()
>   (my-dabbrev-expand)
>   nil)

Why my-dabbrev-expand-and-nil?

> (setq completion-at-point-functions '(my-dabbrev-expand-and-nil))

`setq' on a hook is almost always the wrong thing to do.
Either use `setq-default' here if you really intend to throw away the
default global completion functions, or otherwise use something like:

(add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions 'my-dabbrev-expand 'append)

> I seem to recall talks of priority for completions. Couldn't that be
> used here? That way, I'd set completion-at-point-functions to something
> that returns the list of dabbrev expands with a low priority, and every
> other completion would take precedence over it.

By placing it at the end of the hook, you're giving it the lowest priority.

> Yes it does. It does change the semantics of
> erc-pcomplete-nick-postfix though, by adding an extra space
> automatically. I guess nobody will ever need to complete without
> a space, so that's fine.

Every other erc-pcomplete completion adds a space, so it shouldn't be
too much of a surprise,


        Stefan