From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up abbrev Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:42:08 +0200 Message-ID: <8735ege7fz.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87fsigfyrj.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yL8PNjj/EJcNns9gV0QJYDxdulc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 09:45:50 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oIQ7a-0007fe-Pu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33926 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIQ7Y-000502-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIQ6s-0004zu-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43882) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIQ6q-0002Ly-Kq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oIQ6o-0006d8-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138707 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >>>> Have seen discussions about abbrev. How does it work >>>> exactly, and how could I set it up to test it? >>> >>> It is very handy and useful to use Emacs feature to >>> abbreviate longer phrases and expand them automatically on >>> the fly. >> >> _And_ words that you always type the wrong way. >> Everyone has a couple of those, for example I always type >> length instead of "length". > > It must be that abbrev corrected your word which you always > write as length to length. Uhm, I think I float just that? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal