Open selection menus instead of a new buffer in Emacs

Question

When I use yasnippet for completion it opens up a new buffer to select a list of choices instead of opening up a menu like this cedet example. How do I make my emacs use the menu? I am using emacs 22.1.1

Answer 1

I use the following configuration in yasnippet to get dropdown lists:

(require 'dropdown-list)
(setq yas/prompt-functions '(yas/dropdown-prompt
                             yas/ido-prompt
                             yas/completing-prompt))

You can probably get rid of yas/ido-prompt and yas/comleting-prompt, but I didn't try it.

Yasnippet distribution contains a copy of dropdown-list.el, but if you cannot find it, you can download a copy from EmacsWiki