Re: pabbrev.el version 2

[Richard Riley]

Phillip Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> This is a new release of pabbrev.el. This is a bug fix release, mostly
> incorporating a patch kindly submitted by Trey Jackson, which improves
> the behaviour of the tab key when working in python mode. Thanks to Trey
> for this!
>
> I've also moved versioning system, which has broken my old revision
> number system. In honour of this, I have randomly renumbered this
> release as "version 2". 
>
> For those new to pabbrev.el, functionality is described fully in the
> commentary but in short:
>
>
> The code provides a abbreviation expansion for Emacs.  Its fairly
> similar to "dabbrev" expansion, which works based on the contents
> of the current buffer (or other buffers).
>
> Predictive abbreviation expansion works based on the previously
> written text.  
>
> The current user interface looks like so...
>
> p[oint]
> pr[ogn]
> pre[-command-hook]
> pred[ictive]
>
> As the user types the system narrows down the possibilities.  The
> narrowing is based on how many times the words have been used
> previously.  By hitting [tab] at any point the user can complete the
> word.  The [tab] key is normally bound to `indent-line'.
> `pabbrev-mode' preserves access to this command (or whatever else
> [tab] was bound to), if there is no current expansion. 

How do you see this comparing with normal hippie expand or the
excellent company mode? It seems not so much as a abbreviation system as
a completion system. e.g "kbd" would be an abbreviation for "keyboard"
whereas "key" would not.