From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Abbrev suggestions - feedback appreciated
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:46:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efr7kp4l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrcCQ6ECDA7ssc0VjzeQyMqoq-qBDsvWs5=Brd3pFxkJYaZhg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Mathias Dahl on Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:51:53 +0200)
> From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:51:53 +0200
>
> Some days back I was typing away in Emacs and after typing some hard to
> spell word I realized that I probably had an abbrev defined for that
> word. I checked by abbrev definitions and, yes, it was there. It turns
> out I had many defined abbrevs that I had forgotten about, so I was
> typing more than I needed. This got me thinking that it would be nice if
> Emacs could tell me when I have typed a word that exists as an abbrev
> expansion. After some research in abbrev.el I finally got something to
> work, and you can find it below.
>
> I would like to have people's comments on the idea, and know if this
> might allredy exist (I tried to find something similar but couldn't), and
> also if there are any performance problems or other in my code. The
> internals of abbrevs are dark and mysterious to me, so I might miss some
> crucial things. But, the code seems to do what I want it to.
>
> Also, if people like this idea, perhaps it could be added to Emacs
> proper. Surely it can live on its life as a separate library on Melpa,
> Elpa or other place, but the code is quite short and this feels like
> something that could be a simple option/toggle in Emacs standard abbrev
> functionality. I have papers in place if this is something people would
> like.
Why not add this as an optional feature to abbrev.el, conditional on
some defcustom?
> (defun absug-maybe-suggest ()
> "Suggest an abbrev to the user based on the word before point."
> (let* ((word (absug-word-before-point))
> (expansions (absug-get-active-abbrev-expansions))
> (abbrev (assoc word expansions)))
> (if abbrev
> (message "Abbrev suggestion: The word `%s' has the abbrev
> `%s' defined" (car abbrev) (cdr abbrev)))))
I'd suggest to make the message text shorter, to make the probability
of its becoming longer than the echo-area width, which would resize
the mini-window and cause an annoying redisplay. I'd just drop the
part before the colon, as the rest already says there is an abbrev.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-16 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-16 7:51 Abbrev suggestions - feedback appreciated Mathias Dahl
2017-09-16 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-17 13:15 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-09-16 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-17 13:22 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-09-17 14:03 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-09-17 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-17 21:56 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-10-03 12:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-07 15:13 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-10-07 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-07 17:18 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-10-07 18:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-10-07 22:29 ` Ian Dunn
2017-10-07 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-08 16:38 ` Ian Dunn
2018-09-17 21:48 ` Mathias Dahl
2018-09-18 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 21:37 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-11 22:39 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-11 22:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-16 22:10 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-16 22:22 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-17 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-17 14:59 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-17 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 18:43 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-05-17 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18 22:00 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-06-04 20:14 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-10-07 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-08 15:28 ` Mathias Dahl
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-08 8:15 Seweryn Kokot
2017-10-08 15:25 ` Mathias Dahl
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