On Thu, 5 May 2016 04:14:42 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 May 2016 13:39:26 -0700 (PDT) > > "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unless I'm getting them confused with other commands, I think > > some of these are useful. > > The question is, have you ever actually used them. Well, I think I've used abbreviation-add-global... > Or to put it another way, I think there should at least be a command > to > > add an abbreviation at run time, one that works by having you select > > the text to be abbreviated and then, when the command's run, prompt > > for an abbreviation for it. > > A separate, and reasonable question. ...because I've certainly added abbreviations this way on the fly. > Imo, this would best work by altering @data nodes, not some separate, > almost-never-used external file. In other words, I want *one* way to > handle abbreviations. I don't want to make the almost-never-used Agree 100%, wasn't aware there was some bifurcation in the implementation there. Like I say, I've used (I assume) abbreviation-add-global to create a temporary abbreviation (like the joke says, why is abbreviation such a long word?) but none of the read/write machinery to make it permanent, don't know how that works vs. additions to @data nodes. Cheers -Terry > abbreviation scheme compatible with the excellent scheme you created. > I want to kill the inferior scheme and its attendant inferior > commands :-) > > Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
