anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

Mike Jeays mike.jeays at rogers.com
Sat Nov 12 01:15:27 UTC 2011


On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:23 -0800
Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > "hw r u gys dng?"
> > 
> > into:
> > 
> > "how are you guys doing?
> 
> Assuming you've got emacs installed:
> 
>   info emacs -s abbrev
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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The :ab command in vi will do this; you can build them into a .exrc file.

See http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch30_31.htm


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