[spullara]

This was state of the art emacs in 1997 when I was working on WebLogic. Though at the time it was called hippie-expand mode and it was in emacs.

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand

Yeah, I went there.

[S4M]

Thanks, I was wondering what where the plugins for emacs for autocomplete. How does HippieExpand compare to autocomplete.el? I'll try to test HippieExpand today!

[aerique]

There's a lot of overlap between the two. I'd consider auto-complete.el as a more modern hippie-expand which also includes a nice GUI.

[stewbrew]

IIRC hippie-expand requires users to press a keyboard shortcut (like omni-complete in vim). This plugin seems to always present a completion menu (updated after every keypress).

[hayksaakian]

That emacs vs vim debate, here goes...