Re: Abbrev suggestions - feedback appreciated

[Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>]

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Hi Eli, thanks for your feedback on this!

Why not add this as an optional feature to abbrev.el, conditional on
> some defcustom?
>

I should have mentioned that that is what I had in mind, actually,
if this would ever be included in Emacs.

>         (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.
>

I changed that to:

        (message "You can write `%s' using the abbrev `%s'."
                 (car abbrev) (cdr abbrev)))))

I tried to make it similar to how we "hint" users about keybindings to
commands.

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