Is there sth like dabbrev in VSCode?
reddit / emacs

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whats-a-monad · 2022-06-11 10:04

dabbrev is pretty much the best autocompletion ...

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fftw · 2022-06-11 15:43

This seems to be a fine question for r/vscode, but prepare with
featurelist of dabbrev for those heretics

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[deleted] · 2022-06-11 21:22

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tsma9 · 2022-06-20 04:12

How about "dabbrev-expand" ?

[vscode marketplace: dabbrev-expand](https://marketplace.visualstudio.
com/items?itemName=kiwanamie.dabbrev-expand)

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Strange_Jicama_1231 · 2022-07-19 07:16

This was added as a built-in option, Editor: Word Based Suggestions,
but it's computed as part of IntelliSense-like suggestions so is slow,
\[might not show if it has "better" suggestions\]([https://stackoverfl
ow.com/a/55219340/239657](https://stackoverflow.com/a/55219340/239657)
), and pops up a list you have to select from, whereas I prefer
dabbrev's display of one closest completion and repeated presses
replacing with more distant ones.

So it's still worth installing an extension for fast dabbrev
expansions, and only them.  I also tried https://marketplace.visualstu
dio.com/items?itemName=cvzakharchenko.unabbreviate but I'm not sure it
works well across buffers, dabbrev-expand linked by tsma9 seems better
at that?