From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: , emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: abbrev definition (manual)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:00:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k22vznqc.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A69798DA-9B25-459F-A07E-D4AFAF8C2DD6@gmail.com> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:18:46 +0900")
Dear Jean-Christophe,
>>>>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
> The usual way to define an abbrev is to enter the
> text you want the abbrev to expand to, position
> point after it, and type C-x a g
> (add-global-abbrev). Use a numeric argument to say
> how many words before point should be taken as the
> expansion. This prompts for the abbrev itself in
> the minibuffer, and then defines it as an abbrev
> for the words specified before point. For example,
> to define the abbrev 'foo' as mentioned above,
> insert the text 'find outer otter' and then type
> C-u 3 C-x a g f o o RET.
For me, this is a great improvement over the original.
What do you think of the idea of mentioning the use of the universal
argument C-u, if only as a reminder for newbies like myself? I suppose
that my suggestion might not conform to the way manuals are written.
Best wishes,
Colin.
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2017-07-25 23:18 abbrev definition (manual) Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-26 7:00 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2017-07-26 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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