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Dynamic expansion of words (like emacs dynamic abbrevs)

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:16 pm
by burto
Emacs has a fine feature called 'dynamic abbrevs'. This is bound to the alt-/ key and, when invoked after typing a few prefix chars, it searches back through the current document (and other docs of the same type) for a word that starts with the same prefix and uses it to complete the current word. Typing alt-/ multiple times just cycles through the set of completions.

This feature saves huge amounts of typing and would be a great addition to oxygen. To be of any use, it would have to be bound to a convenient key. I see that alt-/ is not currently used, perfect!

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:57 pm
by wex
I definitly want this too!

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:12 pm
by sorin_ristache
Hello,

We added the request to our bugzilla for future versions.

Best Regards,
Sorin