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Company-mode is a text completion framework for Emacs. The name stands for "complete anything". It uses pluggable back-ends and front-ends to retrieve and display completion candidates.

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How to make Company mode be case-sensitive on plain Text?

By default, Company mode seems to convert every prediction into lower case. E.g: HelloWorldOfGoo HelloWorldOfEmacs -> Hell [Helloworldofgoo] //Company prediction [...
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How to make yasnippet and company work nicer?

In my emacs, let's say, I use a "elisp" yasnippet to extend a lisp block in org-mode. But before I extend it, company is triggered first, which gives me a menu like "1. elisp1, 2. elisp2" without an ...
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How add company-dabbrev to the Company completion popup?

Setup: GUI version GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-07-25 on KAEL Compiled from EmacsW64. , using the latest version of from MELPA Windows 7 x64 bit. Situation: For example, I'm ...
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How to remap Company's select next and select previous keys?

I don't like the default M-n and M-p keys for company-select-next and company-select-previous so I was wondering if it's possible to remap those to C-n and C-p without affecting the mappings when ...
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How can I get C/C++ context-sensitive completion with Company?

Semantic seems to be able to do this, but I cannot get it to work as I would expect it to. For example, if I #include "Type.h" and declare Type t, using semantic-complete-analyze-inline when point is ...
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How to automatically run inferior process when loading major mode for the first time?

Let's say we are working with Python (or Matlab) with company. Without an inferior process company messages that Completion needs an inferior Python process running However, the obvious solution to ...
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How to make private python methods the last company-mode choices?

I'm using emacs with company-mode and I'd like the 'private' methods (method that start with underline) to be shown last, since they are kind of useless for imported libraries in python. See the image:...
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How can I get fuzzy code completion

When using ReSharper in Visual Studio symbols can be auto-completed using fuzzy matching instead of prefix matching. For example if I'm looking for a function named DoSomethingAmazing I could write ...
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How can I stop the enter key from triggering a completion in company mode?

I often want to go to a newline while the company mode suggestion is showing. How can I set up company mode so only the tab key triggers a completion?
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Get Company to show suggestions for Yasnippet names

I use the packages Company mode and Yasnippet. When I'm typing in a buffer, I get autocompletion suggestions from Company. For Yasnippet, I have a directory which contains the snippets. In that ...
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filename completion using company-mode

I enabled company using the following commands in my init.el: (require 'company) (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'global-company-mode) However I'm not getting filename completion, although there is some ...
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How can I prevent company-mode completing numbers?

In org-mode, when I type some numbers, company always pops up the number completion like: 20 20001 -----------1200111 ----------2 These numbers come from my org-mode files. I would like to ...
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Company-mode completion for Org keywords

Org mode has completion for all keywords via pcomplete, as noted by Andrew Swann. However, Company does not seem to pick up on these keywords. Calling company-complete on the following, where | ...
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Ragged menu in company-mode

I am using emacs-mac-port 24.4 on OSX 10.10. My company-mode drop-down menu is ugly. The unicode symbols in it are not the same width, which results in a ragged menu. The left image is with Monaco, ...
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Add include paths to flycheck and to company-irony?

I am starting to develop a ROS (Robot Operating System) application for the first time using Emacs. Here is my ~/.emacs.d/init.el configuration for Flycheck and company packages: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;...
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Emacs - elisp code autocompletion in emacs-lisp-mode

With below setup, my ielm mode has autocompletion function: (require 'ac-slime) (add-hook 'slime-mode-hook 'set-up-slime-ac) (add-hook 'slime-repl-mode-hook 'set-up-slime-ac) (eval-after-load "auto-...
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Symbol's value as variable is void: company-backends

I'm trying to setup robe for Rails development. It needs company mode and I have some issues with it: Have following in init.el: ;; robe, documentation lookup and completion for Ruby (require 'robe) (...
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How to use an ispell dictionary in company mode?

I am writing in LaTeX at the moment and I want to use company-mode for word completion. I found this solution: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/18522. I was thinking about using the ispell ...
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Company: backend company-capf error

I'm using emacs-lsp with company-capf. While editing an elisp file, it works fine. However, once I run eval-buffer, I get the following error when trying to use completion: Company: backend company-...
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(key-binding (this-command-keys)) not translating keybindings

I have put the following code (partially adapted from a company-mode issue and a Stack Exchange question) in my init.el in order to adjust the keybindings active in the company-mode completions menu: ...
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What is the name of the face that appears in this list of company completions?

If I have company-mode enabled, and I type in company like this. (company) I then see a list of completions that I can select. My question is - apart from the currently selected item, the word ...
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PHP completion with Company does not work on local variables

I do have a strange issue when working on PHP files. I have company-mode installed and it works for function completion but not for local variables. For others languages such as Ruby or Lisp, ...
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How can I disable company-mode in a shell when it is remote?

I am using (global-company-mode 1) but using remote shell it is annoyingly slow. How can I disable company mode when I open a shell buffer, but only if it's a remote shell? The problem manifests ...
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disable auto-completion for all buffers by default in spacemacs

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-...
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How can I prevent company-mode completing non-English chars?

i tried these codes before, but none of them works for me . how can i edit this to achieve my goal.
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Using company-mode completion with read-from-minibuffer

The following code (mostly coming from here) creates a company-mode back-end and binds TAB to it: (require 'company) (defconst sample-completions '("procedural" "functional" "high-level" "low-...
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Can I use emacs with company-mode and company-go to complete Go's standard library function names?

Below is my emacs init file that relates to Go. I'm trying to use company mode to auto completes Go. ;;=================================================== ; Golang related configuration ;;=============...
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emacs stalling when looking up definitions with lsp-mode and gopls

I'm using lsp-mode as lsp client and gopls as lsp backend in order to lookup function and variable definitions in go projects. On a given large repository (kubernetes) that I recently wiped and cloned ...
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Using company-ispell with large text dictionary?

I've managed to setup company-ispell which seems to work for small files, but fails for a dump of the aspell dictionary. This works when pressing C-SPC without any existing text before the cursor. ...
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Emacs Company-Jedi Python3 auto completion

I am trying to setup company-jedi to autocomplete for python3. The autocomplete is working for standard python3 modules; however, it is not working for packages I installed using pip3, in this case ...
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