Emacs completion improvement

On completion, Distel opens up a *Completions* buffer. In order to select a
candidate I have to click the mid-mouse button or switch to the buffer and press
RET a selected choice. First alternative is straightforward but I need to use
the mouse ... the second one is painful.

A third alternative that is available in Slime is to refine the selection in the
main buffer and ask for completion again (ALT-tab). It does not seem to work
nicely in Distel. The *Completions* buffer stays open.

I would love to have something a bit more intuitive. Something along the line
with the Predictive Emacs extension (or other editors such as IntelliJ,
Netbeans, Eclipse, ...), a kind of tooltip completion of some sort.

I guess there is a easy way to change the behaviour so that the completion list
result works with Predictive or goes to the mini-buffer instead.

Sounds interesting ? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.



 


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