Emacs Config Gems - Part 6

I came to realize that attempting to wrap up the “Wordcraft” section (as I call it) in Emacs is a fool’s errand. Emacs is Wordcraft. It’s what it’s all about. By the time I finish a draft, a new config or setting changes what I have. This here is an attempt to stay true to my conclusion in the last section. Abbrevs In my opinion, Abbrevs in Emacs is one of its fundamental features. It’s one of those things I’d show someone coming from other word-processing programs to show them the magic of Emacs. In essence, it’s a simple tool: you type two or more letters, and Emacs expands it to a phrase or even a whole paragraph. For example, when you type “hw” it will expand to “hello world” as soon as you hit space after the “w”. Of course, you can achieve more with this useful function. We will get there. First, let’s discuss general usage: To add a new abbrev, stand with the marker after the abbreviation, and then use: C-x a g for a global abbrev (which applies everywhere in Emacs), or C-x a i…