4.4 Dynamic Completion

Dynamic completion is controlled by the completion-use-dynamic customisation variable. When it is non-nil, the most likely completion is provisionally inserted in the buffer after the point and highlighted. If auto-completion-mode is enabled, typing more word-constituent characters will add them to the word, updating the most likely completion (see Auto-Completion Mode). Note that since the completion-reject command ends the completion process, if you want to find completions for the same prefix again after previously rejectng a completion, you have to do it manually with complete-predictive even when auto-completion-mode is enabled. See Inserting Completions, and Auto-Completion Mode.

completion-use-dynamic

When non-nil, enable dynamic completion, which provisionally inserts the most likely conpletion in the buffer.

completion-dynamic-highlight-common-substring

When non-nil, the longest common substring of all the available completions is highlighted in a different colour within the dynamic completion.

completion-dynamic-highlight-prefix-alterations

When non-nil, any differences between the prefix you typed and the corresponding characters from the current completion are highlighted in a different colour.

completion-dynamic-common-substring-face

The face used to highlight the longest common substring in a dynamic completion.

completion-dynamic-prefix-alterations-face

The face used to highlight differences between the typed prefix and the corresponding characters in the current completion.