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 05:03:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87k07sfywz.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10213"; 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:hidYO99w4QVkkDj1ciFuS7F1xb8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 05:20:53 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 1oILzB-0002Sc-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:20:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35374 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oILzA-0007LK-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oILyO-0007KY-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oILyN-0006FF-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oILyL-0001QG-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:20:01 +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:138692 Archived-At: wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Have seen discussions about abbrev. How does it work > exactly, and how could I set it up to test it? Try for example: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; (kill-all-abbrevs) (let ((write '( ("lex" ";;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-") ("sld" "sdl") ("wierd" "weird") ))) (define-abbrev-table 'global-abbrev-table write) ) You can do more things with abbrevs, including executing functions - but it seems I did something wrong this time as this doesn't work ... (defun sh-mode-abbrev-f () (goto-char (point-min)) (insert "#! /bin/zsh\n") (sh-mode) ) (define-abbrev global-abbrev-table "zshbang" t #'sh-mode-abbrev-f) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal