From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:12:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87ppb18bw2.fsf@wanadoo.es> 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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419948789 10546 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2014 14:13:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:13:09 +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 15:13:00 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 1Y5xXf-0006An-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:12:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5xXe-0000CZ-0M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:12:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5xXS-0000CH-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5xXM-0003i5-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5xXL-0003gf-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5xXG-0005tX-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:12:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.10.128.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:12:34 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:12:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YjJH2ORuD0LEiW20P01BfnPd3nw= 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:101770 Archived-At: Tom writes: > 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). If you like this, it can be improved by using flx [1] instead of abbrevs. I use it with Ido for M-x completion and it is very effective at discovering and executing commands (often with less keypresses than their associated key bindings.) 1: https://github.com/lewang/flx