emacs 24 autocomplete yasnippet - emacs

I've been having a problem for a while, and it's giving me a real headache. I'm using emacs 24.2.1
The next code is my configuration for auto-complete, and when I run it without yasnippet everything is running smoothly.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/autocomplete/")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d/autocomplete/ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)
This is my configuration for yasnippets
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/yasnippet")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/global-mode t)
After this code, yasnippet works fine but auto-complete stops working for c-mode, c++-mode, java-mode and php-mode, but it's working well with lisp and python (I've tested only with these languages).
I've tried things that I've found like this code for autocomplete
(set-default 'ac-sources
'(ac-source-abbrev
ac-source-dictionary
ac-source-yasnippet
ac-source-words-in-buffer
ac-source-words-in-same-mode-buffers
ac-source-semantic))
(ac-config-default)
(dolist (m '(c-mode c++-mode java-mode))
(add-to-list 'ac-modes m))
(global-auto-complete-mode t)
After some time I realized that auto-complete was working well when I don't have yasnippet, so that's not the solution. I've also tried (yas/initialize) and (yas--initialize) but it's not making any difference. I've also launch yasnippets before and after autocomplete, and the result is the same. I've also tried modifying the yas/trigger-key variable, and always I have the same result. Hopefully you can help me.

As jpkotta said, I just set my ac-source-yasnippet to nil and that was it.
(setq ac-source-yasnippet nil)

Related

disable autocomplete for specific filetype or language in emacs [duplicate]

I am using Emacs 24 and would like to disable auto-complete mode while in python-mode so it does not conflict with jedi. How do I go about doing this (sadly I do not know Emacs Lisp). Below are my current settings regarding auto-complete in init.el:
;; auto-complete settings
(require 'auto-complete)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d/ac-dict")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)
; Start auto-completion after 2 characters of a word
(setq ac-auto-start 2)
; case sensitivity is important when finding matches
(setq ac-ignore-case nil)
Thanks.
(ac-config-default) turns on global-auto-complete-mode, to stop (auto-complete-mode) from being called in python mode you can write an advice for it.
(defadvice auto-complete-mode (around disable-auto-complete-for-python)
(unless (eq major-mode 'python-mode) ad-do-it))
(ad-activate 'auto-complete-mode)
Also I am not sure this is what you want, since Jedi use auto-complete-mode as Dmitry pointed out in the comment, there should not be conflicts.
I think I had a similar problem: my yellow Jedi popups with Python-specific content were taken over by grey popups from a more general auto-complete feature. Hence, I could choose non-Python related options, but not the Python-specific ones.
What helped for me was ensuring that auto-complete-mode is disabled in Python mode:
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (auto-complete-mode -1)))

How can load a .el configure file with a specified mode in emacs

Usually, I put the confugire .el files in src directory for all kinds of languages. Such as Go, the go-conf.el file:
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'gofmt-before-save)
(add-hook 'go-mode-hook (lambda ()
(local-set-key (kbd "M-.") 'godef-jump)))
(add-hook 'go-mode-hook (lambda ()
(local-set-key (kbd "M-,") 'godef-jump-back)))
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/go/src/github.com/dougm/goflymake")
(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode)
(require 'flycheck)
(require 'go-autocomplete)
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)
)
(provide 'go-conf)
Then, in init.el, I write this line
(require 'go-conf)
Although go-conf can be loaded successfully, emacs launches slowly. It is because that emacs loads go-conf whatever files are opened. I can not tolerate it.
It is better that only when Go file is opened, go-conf is loaded.
I modify the init.el as :
(add-hook 'go-mode-hook '(lambda ()
(require 'go-conf)
(go-conf)
))
But it does not work!!
who can help me?
Your code seems to assume that the whole Emacs only has a single buffer and mode, whereas that is not the case. E.g. (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'gofmt-before-save) affects all buffers, whether they're using go-mode or not. Same for (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode). Emacs is designed such that you can start it once and then edit hundreds of different files at the same time in that one Emacs session. So you should probably rewrite your code along the lines of:
(defun my-go-lang-config ()
(add-hook 'before-save-hook #'gofmt-before-save nil 'local)
(local-set-key (kbd "M-.") 'godef-jump)
(local-set-key (kbd "M-,") 'godef-jump-back)
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/go/src/github.com/dougm/goflymake")
(require 'go-autocomplete))
(add-hook 'go-mode-hook #'my-go-lang-config)
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)
(global-flycheck-mode 1)
where the last three lines are part of your "generic" config (not specific to support for the Go language), meaning that you want to use flycheck and auto-complete whenever it's available rather than only in go-mode.
Your code to add to the hook doesn't work because the hook is run only after the mode is turned on, and the mode is not defined until the library is loaded. It makes no sense to load the same library in the mode hook.
If Emacs becomes slow after loading some library, it is probably due to that library. Is is slow after loading the library even if you do not turn the mode on?
You can try byte-compiling the library code. That can sometimes make a big difference in performance. You can use M-x byte-compile to compile a given file.
If compiling does not help, and if you do not seen anything suspect in buffer *Messages* (e.g., warnings that seem like they might be pertinent), then consider contacting the library maintainer, reporting the problem and asking for a remedy.
If go-mode itself is already available (most likely loaded on demand via an addition to auto-mode-alist, which is probably taken care of automatically if it was installed as an ELPA package), and you're just looking to load your custom library at the same time, then you can use eval-after-load:
(eval-after-load 'go-mode
'(require 'go-conf))
Make sure that the parent directory for your go-conf.el library is in the load-path, of course, otherwise require won't find it.

setting up semantic with cscope

I'm starting to experiment a bit with using emacs as my development envrionment and I am running into a bit of trouble. I wish to use cscope with semantic for a fairly robust way of searching through my code base. However, after installing cscope (with apt-get install cscope) and moving xscope.el into my ~/.emacs.d/, I am still having trouble calling some settings with my .emacs file. When I try to call (semanticdb-enable-cscope-databases), I get an error that the symbol's function definition is void. I am using emacs 24.3
(semantic-mode 1)
(global-ede-mode 1)
(require 'semantic/ia)
;; Semantic
(global-semantic-idle-completions-mode t)
(global-semantic-decoration-mode t)
(global-semantic-highlight-func-mode t)
(global-semantic-show-unmatched-syntax-mode t)
;; auto-complete stuff
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook '(lambda ()
;; ac-omni-completion-sources is made buffer local so
;; you need to add it to a mode hook to activate on
;; whatever buffer you want to use it with. This
;; example uses C mode (as you probably surmised).
;; auto-complete.el expects ac-omni-completion-sources to be
;; a list of cons cells where each cell's car is a regex
;; that describes the syntactical bits you want AutoComplete
;; to be aware of. The cdr of each cell is the source that will
;; supply the completion data. The following tells autocomplete
;; to begin completion when you type in a . or a ->
(add-to-list 'ac-omni-completion-sources
(cons "\\." '(ac-source-semantic)))
(add-to-list 'ac-omni-completion-sources
(cons "->" '(ac-source-semantic)))
;; ac-sources was also made buffer local in new versions of
;; autocomplete. In my case, I want AutoComplete to use
;; semantic and yasnippet (order matters, if reversed snippets
;; will appear before semantic tag completions).
(setq ac-sources '(ac-source-semantic ac-source-yasnippet))
))
(require 'xcscope)
(semanticdb-enable-cscope-databases) ;;This is causing problems
;;C mode
(require 'cc-mode)
;;Color theme
(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bob/.emacs.d/theme/ample-theme/ample-theme.el")
;;(require 'ample-theme)
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
'(progn
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-jsc-dark)))
;;set font
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Anonymous Pro" :height 140)
;;line numbers
(global-linum-mode 1)
(custom-set-variables '(linum-format (quote "%4d \u2502 ")))
;;treat .h files at C++
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.h\\'" . c++-mode))
;; use F5 as compile
(global-set-key [(f5)] 'compile)
;; make compilation window smaller
(setq compilation-window-height 8)
Now, I really start writing an answer to be able to refine it with time. That is how far I got until now:
There are several versions of cedet.
Emacs 24.3 includes cedet-2.0. But, with respect to the bazaar version cited below it seems to be slightly outdated.
I believe that in this version cscope is supported as one of the tools in semantic-symref-tool-alist.
The variable semantic-symref-tool-alist is described in the info manual. One gets there with the key strokes C-h i g (semantic-user) Configuring SymRef.
One can see the default value of semantic-symref-tool-alist after loading semantic/symref. One of its members is:
((lambda
(rootdir)
(file-exists-p
(expand-file-name "cscope.out" rootdir)))
. cscope)
I think that this is the cscope support in in the built-in version of cedet-2.0 and no additional enabling of cscope is required (?).
The official release is cedet-1.1 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/cedet/files/cedet/cedet-1.1.tar.gz/download.
In this version the function semanticdb-enable-cscope-databases is defined in the file semantic/semanticdb-cscope.el
The bazar-version of cedet is cedet-2.0. It is available via bazaar under:
bzr checkout bzr://cedet.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzrroot/cedet/code/trunk cedet
In this version the function semanticdb-enable-cscope-databases is defined in cedet/semantic/db-cscope.el.
This file is missing in the version of cedet shipped with emacs 24.3.
Σ: That makes me believe that if you want to use your setup you should use the bazaar version of cedet-2.0.

Conflicts between org-mode and yasnippet

EDIT My issue was related to snippet syntax all along... The configuration below totally works.
I'm trying to use org-mode and yasnippet together and it's not working even with some of the workarounds on the org-mode FAQ. Whenever I hit TAB on a snippet abbreviation the word gets deleted. TAB behaves normally if I'm not over a snippet word, so there's something going on...
I'm using Org-mode version 7.7, yasnippet (version 0.7.0), and GNU Emacs 23.4.1.
Here's my setup:
(setq load-path
(append (list nil
"~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/yasnippet"
"~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-7.7/lisp")
load-path))
;; set up yasnippet
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/initialize)
(setq yas/snippet-dirs '("~/.emacs.d/mysnippets"
"~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/yasnippet/snippets"))
(mapc 'yas/load-directory yas/snippet-dirs)
;; set up org mode
(require 'org-install)
;; fix some org-mode + yasnippet conflicts:
(defun yas/org-very-safe-expand ()
(let ((yas/fallback-behavior 'return-nil)) (yas/expand)))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key)
(setq yas/trigger-key [tab])
(add-to-list 'org-tab-first-hook 'yas/org-very-safe-expand)
(define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field)))
And I'm pretty sure the hook is running as expected because of the following output of C-h v org-tab-first-hook in an org buffer:
org-tab-first-hook is a variable defined in `org.el'.
Its value is
(yas/org-very-safe-expand org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
And here's C-h k TAB in an org buffer:
<tab> runs the command org-cycle, which is an interactive Lisp
function in `org.el'.
EDIT
After doing a edebug-defun on my yas/org-very-safe-expand function I'm seeing the following message
Result: "[yas] elisp error! Symbol's value as variable is void: err"
So yas is error'ing out somewhere... My edebug foo is not quite up to par but if I get some time I'll try to single step through and see where the error is. My full emacs configuration is on github here.
Turns out my issue was related to snippet syntax, not setup. Silly silly me...
In other words, this totally works:
;; fix some org-mode + yasnippet conflicts:
(defun yas/org-very-safe-expand ()
(let ((yas/fallback-behavior 'return-nil)) (yas/expand)))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key)
(setq yas/trigger-key [tab])
(add-to-list 'org-tab-first-hook 'yas/org-very-safe-expand)
(define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field)))
This took me some time to get worked out as well. I'm using Org-mode version 7.7, yasnippet (version 0.6.1c), GNU Emacs 22.1.1. Here are the relevant portions of my .emacs file (there is some flyspell stuff that is irrelevant):
;;
;; org-mode stuff
;;
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/cmalone/install/org-mode/org-mode/lisp")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/cmalone/install/org-mode/org-mode/contrib/lisp")
(require 'org-install)
;;
;; for YASnippet
;;
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/cmalone/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-0.6.1c")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/initialize)
(yas/load-directory "/Users/cmalone/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-0.6.1c/snippets")
;; Make TAB the yas trigger key in the org-mode-hook and enable flyspell mode and autofill
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
(lambda ()
;; yasnippet
(make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key)
(org-set-local 'yas/trigger-key [tab])
(define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field-group)
;; flyspell mode for spell checking everywhere
;; (flyspell-mode 1)
;; auto-fill mode on
(auto-fill-mode 1)))
C-h v org-tab-first-hook is the same as yours except of the yas/org-very-safe-expand of course. C-h k TAB shows:
TAB runs the command yas/expand
which is an interactive Lisp function in `yasnippet.el'.
It is bound to TAB, <menu-bar> <YASnippet> <Expand trigger>.
(yas/expand)
Expand a snippet before point.
If no snippet expansion is possible, fall back to the behaviour
defined in `yas/fallback-behavior'

Emacs: Best-practice for lazy loading modes in .emacs?

Is there a best practice around lazily loading modes when encountering a relevant file extension?
At this point I have roughly 25 different Emacs modes installed, and startup has become slow. For example, although it's great to have clojure-mode at the ready, I rarely use it, and I want to avoid loading it at all unless I open a file with extension .clj. Such a "lazy require" functionality seems like the right way do mode configuration in general..
I found nothing online, so I've taken a crack at it myself.
Instead of:
(require 'clojure-mode)
(require 'tpl-mode)
I have this:
(defun lazy-require (ext mode)
(add-hook
'find-file-hook
`(lambda ()
(when (and (stringp buffer-file-name)
(string-match (concat "\\." ,ext "\\'") buffer-file-name))
(require (quote ,mode))
(,mode)))))
(lazy-require "soy" 'soy-mode)
(lazy-require "tpl" 'tpl-mode)
This seems to work (I'm an elisp newbie so comments are welcome!), but I'm unnerved about finding nothing written about this topic online. Is this a reasonable approach?
The facility you want is called autoloading. The clojure-mode source file, clojure-mode.el, includes a comment for how to arrange this:
;; Add these lines to your .emacs:
;; (autoload 'clojure-mode "clojure-mode" "A major mode for Clojure" t)
;; (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.clj$" . clojure-mode))
This is one way,
(provide 'my-slime)
(eval-after-load "slime"
'(progn
(setq slime-lisp-implementations
'((sbcl ("/usr/bin/sbcl"))
(clisp ("/usr/bin/clisp")))
common-lisp-hyperspec-root "/home/sujoy/documents/hyperspec/")
(slime-setup '(slime-asdf
slime-autodoc
slime-editing-commands
slime-fancy-inspector
slime-fontifying-fu
slime-fuzzy
slime-indentation
slime-mdot-fu
slime-package-fu
slime-references
slime-repl
slime-sbcl-exts
slime-scratch
slime-xref-browser))
(slime-autodoc-mode)
(setq slime-complete-symbol*-fancy t)
(setq slime-complete-symbol-function 'slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol)
(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t)))))
(require 'slime)
along with,
;; slime mode
(autoload 'slime "my-slime" "Slime mode." t)
(autoload 'slime-connect "my-slime" "Slime mode." t)