# expand-word(3)

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## NAME

expand-word - Complete a word by invocation of the speller

## SYNOPSIS

expand-word

## DESCRIPTION

expand-word attempts to complete the word at the current position through the use of the current language dictionary. The user is presented with a list of endings for the given word portion. These may be selected with the cursor or mouse.

expand-word is automatically invoked from the expand-abbrev-handle(3) macro in response to an expansion command, it is only invoked if enabled in the user-setup(3) => General => Abbrev Expansion => Dict'n setting is enabled.

## NOTES

expand-word is a macro implemented in `abbrev.emf`.

The user-setup configuration simply sets the macro variable `.expand-word.on` to TRUE, i.e.:

    set-variable .expand-word.on 1

It may be subsequently disabled by setting the variable back to 0.

## SEE ALSO

expand-abbrev-handle(3), spell-buffer(3), find-word(3).

(c) Copyright JASSPA 2009
Last Modified: 2009/08/29
Generated On: 2009/10/12

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