Questions tagged [company-mode]
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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Company eclim: cannot complete at point
What works
I have installed emacs-eclim and have it working in my Java buffers. For example, I can invoke eclim-java-refactor-rename-symbol-at-point or eclim-java-show-documentation-for-current-...
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Is it possible to start company completion without a prefix?
Autocompletion is particularly useful in writing CSS, to see the available options for a given property. Company provides company-minimum-prefix-length to control how many characters I have to type ...
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Adaptive sorting of a company backends results
Is there a way of asking company to sort the results it shows based on past choices? The custom variable company-transformers controls this behaviour. The only built-in choices are company-sort-by-...
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emacs-ycmd flycheck integration doesn't support C++11 [closed]
I have successfully configured Company-ycmd and ycmd as my C/C++ auto completion engine. It works great but the Flycheck-ycmd seems not support the C++11 syntax.
And it give the following errors:
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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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Setting include file paths for clang in .dir-locals.el
I'm working on an embedded system and need to limit clang to only the header files of the embedded system code while I'm editing its code. I need to make the following work:
Make sure that company-...
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Setting up company for shell autocompletion
When I use company-mode in shell-mode, by default company seems to pull candidates from tokens in open buffers. How can I set up the backend to get candidates from shell commands, directory names, and ...
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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 use elpy and non-python autocomplete
Elpy provides company-mode to handle autocompletion. The way it is set up, company only turns on when I am in something handled by Elpy.
If I enable auto-complete it works in non-python files, but ...
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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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Adding text properties to empty strings?
Is there a way to add text properties to empty strings? As far as I can tell, calling put-text-property on an empty string silently does nothing. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the empty ...
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setting up irony-mode json compilation database
I am struggling with the setup for irony-mode's JSON cdb support. I have this in my initialization:
;;; C++ code completion
(eval-after-load 'company
'(add-to-list 'company-backends 'company-irony)...
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Client window hung with no visible cause
I was editing some code in an Emacs client, when all of a sudden it stopped reacting to my input. If I killed the client and connected with a new one, I got a pretty strange behaviour:
if I tried to ...
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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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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 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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How can I use Company to spell-check a word?
company-ispell can complete a word at point, but what if you want
to use Company to list the possible corrections for spelling?
As an added bonus, is there any way to integrate this into Flyspell?
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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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Arrow and M-n M-p don't work with company mode in terminal when ESC aborts completion
In a terminal window, I'm finding that company-mode completion doesn't work, whereas it does work in a graphical window. For example a down arrow inserts the text OB and M-n simply inserts n.
As a ...
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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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Company Completion Within Yasnippet Snippet
I am trying to use company-completion within a Yasnippet header. I bound company-complete to C-SPC and use that for my auto-completion. When I hit control enter, I get a screen like this:
And I hit ...
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How to avoid window scrolling after completion list shows up in company-mode?
When I'm editing a file, if the completion list shows up, the text in the current window will always jump (sometime it will jump a few lines but mostly it will jump to the top of the window), after ...
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Find out backend used in company completion
When using custom company backends, company-complete ends up returning no completions due to a misbehaving backend. In such cases, it would be helpful to know out which company backend was used to ...
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Company and shell-mode path completion
When using company in shell-mode, a space is added after a match is made. This makes path completions behave badly, since I simply can't continue with the next directory but have to go back. I guess ...
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Variables not shown in company-mode
I use company-mode for auto-completion and sometimes I have a strange problem with Emacs-Lisp. Variables are not shown among the completion candidates. Sometimes, if shown, pressing <f1> doesn't ...
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How do I use company-mode in some buffers and auto-complete-mode in others?
My init.el loads company with (global-company-mode). I want to make an exception for Javascript buffers, and instead use auto-complete-mode for that mode.
Q: I am struggling to find a way to unhook ...
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I want company-mode to show completions list after the second character
When typing in a buffer with company-mode the completions popup shows after typing the third character:
Is it possible to do this after typing the first or second charater?
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What is the hook used by company-mode to perform autocompletion?
According to describe-key (C-h k), every character I type runs self-insert-command and I suspect that self-insert-command calls some undocumented hook to perform text completition.
I am trying to ...
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Is it possible to make flycheck-mode and company-mode play nice together?
I've encountered two very nice modes when it comes to developing C++ in Emacs. First we have flycheck-mode which on the fly checks the syntax of my code using various backends such as clang or gcc. ...
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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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Get irony-mode to automatically load .config_clang
So irony-mode scans include directories through a file called .clang_complete, which looks like something like: -I./include/
However, it does not automatically load this file. Rather, I have to go ...
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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 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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Jump to documentation buffer with company-mode
I have recently switched from auto-complete-mode to company-mode and I having fun. Recently I had to write some Emacs Lisp code. I start typing my function, completion candidates are shown, I press F1 ...
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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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Undesired auto expansion with company-mode and python-mode
I am using company-mode and python-mode (note the same issue does not happen with python.el) and something about the combination is causing emacs to automatically expand at point. For example, if I ...
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How should I configure irony-mode if my project has no "compilation flags"?
irony-mode is: an Emacs minor-mode that aims at improving the editing experience for the C, C++ and Objective-C languages. It works by using a combination of an Emacs package and a C++ program (irony-...
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What are the differences between autocomplete and company mode?
There seem to be two major autocompletion extensions for emacs: autocomplete and company mode. What are some of the practical differences between the two and when would I want to use one over the ...
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