How to make the yasnippet as the auto-complete backend? - emacs

Question

I want to make the yasnippet as the backend of the auto-complete. However, it doesn't work. what I do after searched the internet is as follows:
get the auto-complete-yasnippet.el, add some elisp in the .emacs like this:
(add-to-list 'load-path
"~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas-global-mode 1)
(yas-minor-mode nil)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-/") 'yas/expand)
;; Auto-complete settings
;; this is the code for the auto-complete
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d//ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)
;;setup for auto-complete-yasnippet
(require 'auto-complete-yasnippet)
(setq-default ac-sources
'(
;; ac-source-semantic
ac-source-yasnippet
ac-source-abbrev
ac-source-words-in-buffer
ac-source-words-in-all-buffer
;; ac-source-imenu
ac-source-files-in-current-dir
ac-source-filename
)
)
I look at the content in the ac-sources in *scratch* with C-h v, and it does have the ac-source-yasnippet. someone said that there may be something wrong with the version and upgrade of auto-complete as well as yasnippet. How can it be fixed?
My emacs version is 23.3.1 my auto-complete version is 1.3.1 and my yasnippet version is 0.8.0(beta) which is just downloaded from the github. any help?

Answer 1

you can easily do it by (require 'auto-complete-yasnippet)
and then you can change your auto-complete like follows:
(defun my-ac-config ()
(setq-default ac-sources '(ac-source-abbrev ac-source-dictionary ac-source-words-in-same-mode-buffers))
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'ac-emacs-lisp-mode-setup)
;; (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'ac-cc-mode-setup)
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'ac-ruby-mode-setup)
(add-hook 'css-mode-hook 'ac-css-mode-setup)
(add-hook 'auto-complete-mode-hook 'ac-common-setup)
(add-hook 'octave-mode-hook 'ac-octave-mode-setup)
(global-auto-complete-mode t))
(defun my-ac-cc-mode-setup ()
(setq ac-sources (append '(ac-source-clang ac-source-yasnippet) ac-sources)))
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-ac-cc-mode-setup)
;; ac-source-gtags
(my-ac-config)
It works fine on my machine.

Answer 2

there maybe something wrong with the auto-complete-config.el when acquire the ac-yasnippet-candidates in the auto-complete-1.3.1 version:
(defun ac-yasnippet-candidates ()
(with-no-warnings
(if (fboundp 'yas/get-snippet-tables)
;; >0.6.0
(apply 'append (mapcar 'ac-yasnippet-candidate-1 (yas/get-snippet-tables major-mode)))
(let ((table
(if (fboundp 'yas/snippet-table)
;; <0.6.0
(yas/snippet-table major-mode)
;; 0.6.0
(yas/current-snippet-table))))
(if table
(ac-yasnippet-candidate-1 table))))))
the code snippet above somewhat must be changed to be compatible with the yasnippet-0.8.0version. I download the newest version of auto-complete-1.4.0 from github and it solved the problem judge the version of yasnippet and take measures accordingly. Like this:
(defun ac-yasnippet-candidates ()
(with-no-warnings
(cond (;; 0.8 onwards
(fboundp 'yas-active-keys)
(all-completions ac-prefix (yas-active-keys)))
(;; >0.6.0
(fboundp 'yas/get-snippet-tables)
(apply 'append (mapcar 'ac-yasnippet-candidate-1
(condition-case nil
(yas/get-snippet-tables major-mode)
(wrong-number-of-arguments
(yas/get-snippet-tables))))))
(t
(let ((table
(if (fboundp 'yas/snippet-table)
;; <0.6.0
(yas/snippet-table major-mode)
;; 0.6.0
(yas/current-snippet-table))))
(if table
(ac-yasnippet-candidate-1 table)))))))
I copied the auto-complete-config.el from the auto-complete-1.4.0version, byte compiled it, and replaced the same files(both auto-complete-config.el and auto-complete-config.elc) in auto-complete-1.3.1version. it just worked! I think may the config file of auto-complete should not included in the distro and maybe it should maintained separately to make it easy to compatible with its backends.
I reconfigured the yasnippet and the auto-complete like this:
;; setup for yasnippet
(add-to-list 'load-path
"~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet")
;; Extension and configuration of yasnippet.
(require 'yasnippet-config)
;; If you use yasnippet from 'auto-complete', add
(yas/set-ac-modes)
(yas/enable-emacs-lisp-paren-hack)
;; before 'auto-complete' settings.
;; Auto-complete settings
;; this is the code for the auto-complete
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d//ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)