Re: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols

[Robert Thorpe]

There are the dynamic abbrevs facilities, M-\ and C-M-\.  They search
through the open buffers looking for completion candidates.  They're
included by default in hippie-expand's completers.  Personally, I prefer
that style of completion to abbrev.

You could use a similar strategy with normal abbrev though.  Load up a
set of Elisp files that are typical of your personal usage.  You could
then use the code in dabbrev-expand or dabbrev-completion to find the
completions you want.  You could wrap that in a bit of Elisp and run it
once to generate a table, then decide on the abbrevs manually or by
taking a prefix.

Martin mentions that the Emacs sources themselves contain some code
that's frowned upon these days.  That's true, there are many old parts
of Emacs.  The parts that are new are a good guide though.  There are
some peculiarities even there though, Emacs code doesn't use certain
features to avoid loading them when Emacs starts, easymenu for example.

BR,
Robert Thorpe