From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <549C259F.8080307@easy-emacs.de> <54A1A064.3020602@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419934828 30002 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2014 10:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:20:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 30 11:20:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuX-00059D-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:20:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuW-0008LJ-7O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuL-0008LD-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuG-0008TV-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuG-0008S1-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5tuE-0004vY-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:20:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 84-236-64-107.pool.digikabel.hu ([84.236.64.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:20:02 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 84-236-64-107.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:20:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 84.236.64.107 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101767 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler easy-emacs.de> writes: > > Beside the reason given: there is the need remember abbrevs - unless it's useless. > When defining it manually, you will give a mnemonic abbrev, which presents itself maybe. > In the automatic example the abbrevs are generated from the first letters, so there is nothing extra to remember, if you know the function name then you know the abbrev (e.g. with-current-buffer -> wcb).