Re: dabbrev-expand for the minibuffer

[Jason Rumney]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>   
> > It would be easier to implement this in hippie-expand because it has all
> > necessary infrastructure.
> >     
>
> What exactly is the relationship between dabbrev and hippie-expand?
>
> They seem like two implementations of the same thing; is there a reason
> to have both?
>   

They are quite different. dabbrev completes based on existing text in 
the buffer (or multiple buffers with a prefix arg). hippie-expand 
completes using multiple methods, which may or may not include dabbrev.