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I'm trying to find a package in Emacs that when you are trying to find a file, suggests you all the possible completions as you type. These completions show up in the temporary buffer. It's like zshell functionality in vim but automatic. Thank you in advance.

George Liontos
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  • Unfortunately, software and library recommendation questions are not welcome on Stack Overflow. Voting to close as off-topic. – tripleee Jan 03 '18 at 18:16

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I assume you don't really mean

"all the possible completions"

In every directory? On every mounted drive?

But there are multiple emacs packages that do versions of this and what you're asking is too general for a question on stackoverflow as a lot of the choice comes down to personal preference and the style in which packages do particular things.

Personally I use helm and projectile. Other choices are ido and ivy and there are no doubt many others that might achieve something that resembles "all the possible completions" in a useful way.

Here's one example using helm Emacs. Helm package. How find files in folder (not a git folder) and all subfolders?

Rob H
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    I meant in the current directory. I'm sorry for not mentioning that. Projectile was the package that I was looking for. Thank you for your response. – George Liontos Jan 02 '18 at 15:45
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If you are trying to find completion for anything, use Company Mode. It has multiple back-ends including 'files' and you can configure them. It's a text completion framework. It is also more practical than listing all the completion possible for a given letters.

aartist
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