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: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 09:04:05 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87fsigfyrj.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18797"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 09:26:28 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 1oIPoq-0004ev-Mh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:26:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIPop-0000wM-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIPlL-0007fD-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIPlJ-0007nA-Nc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.82.86.150]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000A5AEF.0000000062E77F27.00001D59; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:22:14 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fsigfyrj.fsf@dataswamp.org> 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:138704 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-08-01 06:16]: > 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. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/