Completion in emacs mode

[Fernando Perez]

Jacek Generowicz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for the ability to do command completion in Emacs' python
> mode. I haven't managed to get Google to show me anything really
> pertinent to this quest.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Contact me privately if you want access to some still experimental code that 
does this. It was written by Alex Schmolck for integration with ipython, so I 
don't know if it works with plain python (ipython is better anyway :).

We haven't released it publically yet because it's not 100% finished, but 
it's quite useable. You'll need

1. ipython, from http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython/
2. A patched (by Alex) python-mode.el, which I have and can give you.
3. A new ipython.el special mode file, which I also have (also written by 
Alex).

This provides standard emacs-type completion (in a *Completions* buffer) for 
python keywords, attributes and filenames in the current directory (ipython 
has some basic shell-like functionality built-in).

Cheers,

f.