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Bring hippie-expand back

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I can't believe that during all my migrations I forgot to bring over
the hippie. While I'm at it, let's have it work with TAB!
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Howard Abrams 2022-05-17 10:30:33 -07:00
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debug-on-error t)
#+END_SRC
The venerable [[help:hippie-expand][hippie-expand]] function does a better job than the default, [[help:dabbrev-expand][dabbrev-expand]], so let’s swap it out (see this [[https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/text-expansion-hippie-expand][excellent essay]] by Mickey Petersen):
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(global-set-key [remap dabbrev-expand] 'hippie-expand)
#+END_SRC
Details? Check out its [[help:hippie-expand-try-functions-list][list of expanders]].
What would be /really nice/ is to have it bound to ~TAB~ instead of the default ~M-/~. Normally, ~TAB~ re-indents the line, but I find that I usually want that feature when I’m in Evil’s =normal state= and hit the ~=~ key, so changing this sounds good. But why not /have both/?
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(advice-add #'indent-for-tab-command :after #'hippie-expand)
#+END_SRC
Now while we’re typing along, we can hit the ~TAB~ key after partially typing a word to have it completed.
Save the file whenever I move away from Emacs (see [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10314][this essay]]):
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun save-all-buffers ()