From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up abbrev Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 16:08:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39286"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 31 15:09:02 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 1oI8gn-000A3c-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 15:09:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40750 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oI8gm-0008N4-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oI8gL-0008Mr-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:60371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oI8gC-0005Ce-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 09:08:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.231.113.136]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000A5AF5.0000000062E67EC3.00004BB8; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 06:08:18 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:138677 Archived-At: * wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2022-07-31 15:24]: > 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. Best is if you evalute following in Emacs and read it from manual: (info "(emacs) Abbrevs") 29.2 Defining Abbrevs ===================== ‘C-x a g’ Define an abbrev, using one or more words before point as its expansion (‘add-global-abbrev’). ‘C-x a l’ Similar, but define an abbrev specific to the current major mode (‘add-mode-abbrev’). ‘C-x a i g’ Define a word in the buffer as an abbrev (‘inverse-add-global-abbrev’). ‘C-x a i l’ Define a word in the buffer as a mode-specific abbrev (‘inverse-add-mode-abbrev’). ‘M-x define-global-abbrev ABBREV EXP ’ Define ABBREV as an abbrev expanding into EXP. ‘M-x define-mode-abbrev ABBREV EXP ’ Define ABBREV as a mode-specific abbrev expanding into EXP. ‘M-x kill-all-abbrevs’ Discard all abbrev definitions, leaving a blank slate. Let us say you have following words: We are the champions⬛ and your cursor is there on the end of the word "champions", you could write {C-4 C-x a g} and enter into minibuffer: "wechamp" and then any time you write "wechamp" and press {C-x '} after "wechamp" it would expand to "We are the champions". I often use it to expand websites, such as wgnu to expand to https://www.GNU.org Then if you do {M-x abbrev-mode RET} the expansion takes place automatically. Links in this email are surrounded by curly brackets and represent Hyperbole package's hyperlinks which may be automatically invoked by {M-RET} In fact, my signature below is never automatically added, I use abbrevs for that. My real signature is: actfsf suprms however, then when I enter "actfsf" it expands into what you see here below. So signatures I always add manually, but by using abbrevs. 👀 Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/