company-ipa

This package adds IPA completion for company.

Usage

To install clone this package directly.

(load-file "PATH/company-ipa.el")

Alternatively it should now be on MELPA.

After the package is installed, you can enable company-ipa by adding the following to your init file:

(add-to-list 'company-backends 'company-ipa-symbols-unicode)

It is highly recommended that you use company-flx, otherwise completions will not work very well.

Use the variable company-ipa-symbol-prefix to change the prefix to trigger completion. By default this is bound to ~pp. You can change this with:

(company-ipa-set-trigger-prefix "¬")

Completion without company-flx

If you do not wish to use company-flx, completion is more cumbersome, but still possible. First, you should make sure that the completion trigger (company-ipa-symbol-prefix) is at least as long as company-minimum-prefix-length. (In the default setup for company and company-ipa this is the case.) Then, after typing the trigger, you should first type a single category character to narrow down the list of candidates to a manageable number:

• For IPA vowels and consonants: the Latin alphabet character that most closely resembles the IPA character (e.g., a for ɐ, ɒ, ɑ and æ, b for β, ɓand ʙ, etc.) Characters based on the glottal stop ʔ use ? as the category character.
• For Clicks: | (pipe).
• For diacritics: ' (apostrophe).
• For superscripts: ^ (circumflex).
• For subscripts: _ (underscore).

After typing the category character, the list of possible completions should be sufficiently small to be able to locate the character with M-n and M-p, but it is of course possible to type further characters or TAB to narrow down the list further.

You can customise the list of symbols, the description strings and even the category characters by modifying the variable company-ipa-symbol-list-basic. See the doc string of that variable for details.

Note that the category character can be longer than a single character. This can be used to make some characters easily accessible. For example, if you set the category character for æ to ae, you can select this character by typing the trigger prefix followed by ae and then RET.