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What are the letters on the right side of auto-complete's popup?

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For example, what do the "a" and "d" mean in this screenshot?

screenshot of Emacs's auto-complete package in action

(A bit of background detail: I'm using Emacs 24.3 on OS X 10.8.3, and the automatic completion library in question is auto-complete)

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Josh Tilles Avatar asked Apr 03 '13 20:04

Josh Tilles


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an image of a table in auto-complete's documentation, mapping each symbol to its meaning

The letters are mnemonics, indicating why auto-complete considers a particular candidate worthy of your consideration. In the screenshot, many candidates have "d" next to them because they come from the project's dict file for Python-mode. The "a" is for abbrev… but I can't say much more than that because I haven't used the abbrev stuff yet.

Anyway, you can learn more by exploring ac-define-source, both its documentation and its usages.

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Josh Tilles Avatar answered Nov 15 '22 10:11

Josh Tilles