Description changzhouwang 2004-03-04 20:27:38 EST

In Eclipse 3.0M6, the experimental emacs key binding Alt / is used to popup a 
completion window. However, it is different from the powerful emacs-
style "dynamic abbrev", which try to search any text in the current buffer or 
other buffers to find possible completion choices. In eclispe, this is instead 
used only to complete defined variables, classes, members, etc. For example, 
you cannot use it inside a string. For another example, if you use a new 
constant (static final member) in your code (which will temporarily give an 
error), and want to define it later, you can not use complete to save some 
typing there.

In summary, I would prefer to see the full power emacs style "dynamic abbrev" 
support. The current completion support can still be invoked using Ctrl . (as 
JDEE in emacs use Ctrl c v .).

As an emacs fan, I really hope eclipse can implement many excellent features 
from emacs, such as keyboard macros, undo-of-undo, rectangular cut/copy/paste.