emacs & icicles: auto-completion from a dictionary?

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Published on 2010-04-26T16:19:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 16:23 UTC
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I just installed icicles with emacs, and so far I am liking it a lot. I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, but I would like to implement (or use, if it already exists) a feature in icicles that would auto-complete words from an English dictionary.

So, if I'm writing something and need a word that rhymes with floor, I can type in *or, or even better, for alliteration, type in flo* and have it return all the words from the dictionary that start with flo

Questions:

  1. Does something like this exist?

  2. If it does not exist, what would be the best way to go about this? Should I somehow hook into aspell? Or just index a long file of words?

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