Re: Setting up abbrev

[carlmarcos]

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Aug 1, 2022, 11:42 by incal@dataswamp.org:

> carlmarcos--- 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) )
>>>
>>
>> Suppose I have a number of tables and want to introduce them
>> to `global-abbrev-table', how could I do it?
>>
>
> The way it's done above ...
>
>> (setq tb1 '(("bf" "before") ("ll" "little"))
>> (setq tb2 '(("fm" "from") ("sc" "such"))
>>
>
> Very bad examples what to do with abbrev. Disencouraged!
>
Get past the discouragement.  Because when pushing things by categorisation 
there is a pressing demand for more than a single rudimentary table.