Emacs: abbreviations with abbrev-mode (quick text expansion)

3 февр. 2024 г. In this ~27 minute video, I explain how to use the built-in `abbrev-mode` to define “abbreviations“ for quick-yet-powerful text expansion. I cover the most simple scenario and then go into more technical implementations: (i) to use a function instead of a predetermined text, and (ii) to expand what counts as an abbreviation so as to use characters that are not word constituents. The code I had in my scratch buffer is on my website: