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Emacs auto-complete-mode at startup

I just install auto-complete-mode, however everytime I start emacs I have to M-x auto-complete-mode. Is there anyway to have it loaded automatically ?

My .emacs is as follows:

;; auto-complete
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d//ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)

Thanks

Solution

  • I think you can do it in various ways. To enable it globally you should use 

    (global-auto-complete-mode t)

    But it uses auto-complete-mode-maybe, which turn AC on only those listed in ac-modes. You can add them manually just like this

    (add-to-list 'ac-modes 'sql-mode)

    You can make your own list if you wish AC be active only for few modes

    (setq ac-modes '(c++-mode sql-mode))

    Or rewrite it to have AC everywhere.

    (defun auto-complete-mode-maybe ()
  "No maybe for you. Only AC!"
  (auto-complete-mode 1))

    edited:

    Autocomplete in minibuffer is bad. I think this will be better.

    (defun auto-complete-mode-maybe ()
  "No maybe for you. Only AC!"
  (unless (minibufferp (current-buffer))
    (auto-complete-mode 1)))