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* Auto-Abbrev
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Auto-Abbrev is a package designed to minimize the typing distance to any word in a file. It works as follows:
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1. Determine a list of all words in the file
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2. Sort the list of words by their frequency (most used words first)
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3. Going down the list, select the shortest unique abbreviation possible. This makes the most frequent words the easiest to type, given that they get first pick on abbreviations
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4. Output the list of (abbreviation, word) pairs in the appropriate format for the editor (Emacs only, currently)
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It is then the job of the editor integration to make it easy to know the abbreviations. This is accomplished most effectively by visually underlining the abbreviation characters for each word in-line.
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