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Is there a way to keep auto-completion enabled as a layer, but have it disabled by default in spacemacs?

For example, I want to have the auto-completion layer enabled in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers, but I want auto-completion to start disabled whenever I open up a new buffer.

Currently, whenever I open a buffer, I need to press SPC t a (which calls spacemacs/toggle-auto-completion) to disable auto-completion. I'd like this to be the other way around. I'd like for auto-completion to be disabled by default. I'd like to be able to press SPC t a to enable auto-completion.

I'm a beginner with emacs/spacemacs, so I'm not sure how I would express this, but one thought would be to call spacemacs/toggle-auto-completion-off whenever I open a new buffer. How would you write this in elisp?

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You could add spacemacs/toggle-auto-completion-off to the buffer-list-update-hook by adding

(add-hook 'buffer-list-update-hook 'spacemacs/toggle-auto-completion-off)

to your .spacemacs-file (in the dotspacemacs/user-config-section). This toggles auto completion off every time the buffer list updates, which happens when you open or close a file or buffer.

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  • Thanks, this works well. I ended up going with something like this: (add-hook 'buffer-list-update-hook (lambda () (if (eq 'company auto-completion-front-end) (company-mode -1))))
    – illabout
    Aug 23 '17 at 18:03

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