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Abbreviation Facilities
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   It is possible in Emacs to define abbrevs based on the contents of
the buffer.  Sophisticated templates can be defined using the Emacs
abbreviation facilities.  Note: Abbreviations, for
details.

   Emacs also provides Dynamic Abbreviations.  Given a partial word,
Emacs will search the buffer to find an extension for this word.  For
instance, one can type `Abbreviations' by typing `A', followed by a
keystroke that completed the `A' to `Abbreviations'.  Repeated typing
will search further back in the buffer, so that one could get `Abbrevs'
by repeating the keystroke, which appears earlier in the text.  Emacs
binds this to `<ESC> /', so you will have to find a key and bind the
function `dabbrev-expand' to that key.  Facilities like this make Vi's
`:ab' command obsolete.


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