Yasnippet and pabbrev working together in Emacs

Question

I am trying to get the yasnippet and pabbrev packages working together with emacs, but I cannot seem to get any love. How can I get them to play nicely together?

The crux of the problem is that pabbrev and yasnippet are binding to the tab keys. Both packages seem to do this fallback when a match isn't found, but they don't fall back properly.

I am currently using Emacs W32 (the last emacs 22 release). yasnippet is byte compiled, but pabbrev is not.

Edit: Thus far neither tabkey2 nor hippie expand work out of the box, which is why I have yet to mark either solution as a correct answer. I'm hacking away at tabkey2 to make it work though.

More data needed. Are you byte-compiling? – jfm3 Sep 30 '08 at 05:40 — jfm3, Sep 30 '08 at 05:40
How are they "not playing nicely" can you be more concrete? – jfm3 Sep 30 '08 at 05:42 — jfm3, Sep 30 '08 at 05:42
Hahha. Me = lame. Question is updated. – Jonathan Arkell Sep 30 '08 at 05:44 — Jonathan Arkell, Sep 30 '08 at 05:44
did you get it working? Can you post what you did? – jacob May 05 '09 at 18:56 — jacob, May 05 '09 at 18:56

Justin Tanner · Answer 1 · 2013-12-13T23:10:21.827

I use hippie-expand to manage tab expansion packages.

The following code will try each package in order to expand your tab key press:

(require 'hippie-exp)

(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
      '(yas/hippie-try-expand
        try-expand-dabbrev
        try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers
        try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill
        try-complete-file-name
        try-complete-lisp-symbol))

Note: hippie-expand will probably not work with pabbrev, because pabbrev is an emacs minor mode.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '08 at 06:18

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Have a look at tabkey2.el. It looks like it addresses the problem you're having.

answered Sep 30 '08 at 06:18

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