Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:15:24PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:15:24 -0500 From: Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com Subject: Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:23 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@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 sorry, i should have been more direct and asked 'whose code should i steal'? or should roll my own? on my EEE-900A I'Ve got 137 std abbrs and sevral custom abbreviations. (since this is sound-only, 'thr' can mean 'there' or 'their' or 'they're' ;_) gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?
around thanksgiving in 1996 I began using//STUDYING the Xlib set that is behing every other toolkit in the NIX world. I eventually moved to the Athena toolkit. IIRC, there is a faily simple Xlib editor. it would save [or speed up] typing to use abbrevs. without too much effort, do any of you hackers see how it would work to turn: hw r u gys dng? into: how are you guys doing? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:23 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
