John Ya-ya wrote:
> 
> word-completion or substitution feature.  This would, for example, let you
> define a word to be replaced, while typing, with another word.  (This is the
> same thing that un-named app with a dancing paper clip uses to fix mistakes when
> people type "hte" instead of "the".)  If I, then, got tired of typing
> "stratification" every two minutes, I could define a substitution and instead
> type "stratn", for instance, and have it auto-replaced.  This would probably
> add a bit of overhead, though... not knowing much about the mechanics of such
> things (being at about the "Hello, world!" level of C programming :) I don't
> know if that would be worthwhile.

If you are tiered of typing long words you can create new commands
with abbreviations, e.g. :

\newcommand{\sat}{satisfaction\space}   % in preamble or elsewhere

\sat is all I want. % becomes what you want .. :-))

the only problem is typing \sat in tex-mode (red). 

Herbert

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