Name

autocomplete-ALL-the-things - an urxvt plugin allowing user to easily complete arbitrary text

Installation

Copy the autocomplete-ALL-the-things file to the urxvt perl-lib directory (default: ~/.urxvt/ext/).

Add the following lines to your ~/.Xresources (or ~/.Xdefaults):

URxvt.perl-ext-common:    ...,autocomplete-ALL-the-things
URxvt.keysym.M-C-slash:   perl:aAtt:word-complete
URxvt.keysym.M-question:  perl:aAtt:fuzzy-complete
URxvt.keysym.M-quotedbl:  perl:aAtt:undo

Description

Completes the currently typed word using the other words visible in the urxvt window.

For example the terminal looks like this:

It was strongly inspired by dabbrev feature in GNU Emacs and later by skeleton-complete by Bao Haojun.

Basic usage

Just press the key bound to aAtt:complete (in the example above: Alt-Ctrl-slash) to complete the word at point. Subsequent uses cycle through other possible completions.

It is not recommended to bind the completion actions to the alphanumeric keys. The symbol keys should be preferred. See the issue #13.

Key bound to aAtt:undo (Alt-Shift-quote) undoes the completion. Additionally, pressing Escape undoes the completion too regardless of this setting.

Advanced usage

For more advanced completions use aAtt:fuzzy-word-complete (Alt-Shift-slash) and aAtt:skeleton-complete. It's behavior is inspired by skeleton-complete, please see its readme for a more detailed explanation.

Available functions

• aAtt:word-complete -- classical prefix-based completion for words
• aAtt:WORD-complete -- completion for WORDS (in the Vim meaning)
• aAtt:fuzzy-word-complete -- fuzzy completion for words
• aAtt:fuzzy-WORD-complete -- fuzzy completion for WORDS
• aAtt:fuzzy-complete -- fuzzy completion for arbitrary strings
• aAtt:suffix-complete -- fuzzy completion for suffixes, disrespecting prefixes of both completion and given strings
• aAtt:surround-complete -- fuzzy completion for surrounded by quotes or braces strings, excluding surrounding.
• aAtt:undo -- undo the completion (must be used right after a completion)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Stanislav Seletskiy for various contributions.

Thanks to Bao Haojun for the great idea of skeleton-complete.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Wojciech Siewierski

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.