Re: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols

[Emanuel Berg]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> The other day it occurred to me I could use simple
> abbrevs for elisp programming, but defining these
> manually is tiresome, so I did some automation ...
> The idea is trivial ...

Not exactly trivial I would say, and certainly not the
implementation.

> so I collected the usage statistics of all elisp
> symbols from the emacs lisp sources

Cool: most likely there isn't a better example for how
to properly use Elisp for real software, than Emacs
and the associated software and libraries.

But even so, what if some guy is the other way around,
e.g., he prefers `garbage-collect' to `goto-char'? Is
that easily rerouted in some automatically generated
(but after that manually editable) abbrev table?

> so probably somebody has done something like this
> already

Yes: I've seen something similar but I think that was
the typing of commands after M-x, and not the whole
Elisp language when typing it in a buffer.

Personally, though I think this an interesting/cool
project, I don't have a problem typing (on the
contrary, I like it very much) and I am actually very
fond of the Elisp verbose style (compare the C style
with very short names, with "undelimited"
abbreviations and often digits and such in between and
all over) - I mean, I like C, and when I do C I do
that as well, but when I do Elisp, I really enjoy
those long this-is-a-function-that-does-something - it
isn't too slow to type as long as it is normal words
and normal chars, not
asymmetric-asynchronous-continuous-anonymous or
anything.

My second concern is that if this is abbrevs, don't
you get crazy from them expanding all the time as you
type?

But anyway, thumbs up for activity and zeal!

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