From: wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting up abbrev
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:35:28 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <N8JbIsO--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YuZ+ucBrwA9vOR/F@protected.localdomain-N8JMuQk----2>
Jul 31, 2022, 13:08 by bugs@gnu.support:
> * wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-07-31 15:24]:
>
>> Have seen discussions about abbrev. How does it work exactly, and
>> how could I set it up to test it?
>>
>
> It is very handy and useful to use Emacs feature to abbreviate longer
> phrases and expand them automatically on the fly.
>
> Best is if you evalute following in Emacs and read it from manual:
>
> Let us say you have following words: We are the champions⬛ and your
> cursor is there on the end of the word "champions", you could write
> {C-4 C-x a g} and enter into minibuffer: "wechamp" and then any time
> you write "wechamp" and press {C-x '} after "wechamp" it would expand
> to "We are the champions".
>
Have tried it and works well. Does it always have to work by pressing {C-x '}.
Was hoping it would work like company-mode, as you type.
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2022-07-31 12:23 Setting up abbrev wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-31 13:08 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01 3:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 6:04 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01 7:42 ` Emanuel Berg
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2022-07-31 15:35 ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-07-31 16:40 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-01 6:21 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01 6:05 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-31 20:02 ` kf
2022-08-01 3:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 10:41 ` uzibalqa
2022-08-01 11:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 14:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-01 15:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2022-08-01 16:57 ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-01 18:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2022-08-01 16:56 ` tomas
2022-08-01 18:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 20:37 ` tomas
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2022-08-01 11:42 ` Emanuel Berg
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