Re: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols

[Tom]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573 <at> student.uu.se> writes:
> 
> Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 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?

Something like this could be added, but I don't see
the reason, because I think the elisp sources are
fairly representative of the usage frequency of symbols.

I'm pretty sure most people use goto-char more often
than garbage-collect.

The aim was to provide a very convenient way to type
the most frequent symbols. For the less frequent one
you always have some kind of completion.

I was tired of typing save-exursion, etc. all the time
and while I use completion (company) for elisp symbols
it's still cumbersome to type for the most frequent
symbols while typing simply 'se' is very convenient.

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

There was one problematic abbrev I found when I tried
it 'if' which mapped to some lesser used function, don't
remember which, so I deleted it manually.

Otherwise, the abbrevs are surprisingly unique and 
didn't interfere with normal typing, though I haven't
tested it extensively.