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Starter kit yasnippet and autocomplete

Yasnippet is a snippet expansion system for Emacs. It uses short phrases and the tab key to trigger the insertion of frequently-used snippets of code or text in your document. Autocomplete mode has dynamic suggestions for completetion of text in a buffer. Here we set them up to work properly together.

Load the yasnippet bundle

  (add-to-list 'load-path
                 (expand-file-name  "yasnippet"
                                    (expand-file-name "elpa"
                                                      dotfiles-dir)))
  (require 'yasnippet)
;;  (yas/set-ac-modes)
;;  (yas/enable-emacs-lisp-paren-hack)
  (yas/global-mode 1)

Load the snippets defined in the package’s ./snippets/ directory, and local snippets from the ./local-snippets/ directory.

(yas/load-directory (expand-file-name "snippets" dotfiles-dir))
 

Load autocomplete

(require 'auto-complete)
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(global-auto-complete-mode t)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories (expand-file-name "auto-complete" dotfiles-dir))
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d/local-autocomplete")
(setq ac-modes (append ac-modes '(org-mode))) 
(ac-config-default)
(define-key ac-complete-mode-map [tab] 'ac-expand)
(require 'ac-R) ;; in ~/.emacs.d/local-autocomplete
(setq ac-auto-start 4)
(ac-flyspell-workaround)
(define-key ac-mode-map (kbd "M-TAB") 'auto-complete)
(setq ac-auto-show-menu 0.8)
;; 
(set-face-background 'ac-candidate-face "#366060")
(set-face-foreground 'ac-selection-face "#1f1f1f")
(set-face-background 'ac-selection-face "#8cd0d3")
(set-face-foreground 'ac-selection-face "#1f1f1f")