bug#30737: [patch] global-abbrev-mode

[Alex Branham]

On Wed 07 Mar 2018 at 11:09, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:27:05 -0600
>>
>> It's currently not very clear how we're supposed to turn on abbrev-mode
>> everywhere. This patch introduces global-abbrev-mode to solve that
>> particular problem. I've been using this line in my init.el for a few
>> months without issue.
>
> Does it make sense to have it turned on in every single buffer?  What
> major modes do you routinely use?

I use a mix of text modes (auctex, org, etc) and programming modes
(python, ess, etc). I find it useful to have the global abbrev table
collect common spelling mistakes or typos like teh and automatically
correct them to "the".

This was inspired by a blog post[1]. The author there recommends turning
on abbrev-mode everywhere with setq-default, but the doc string
explicitly says not to do that: "Use the command ‘abbrev-mode’ to change
this variable."


Footnotes:
[1]  
http://endlessparentheses.com/ispell-and-abbrev-the-perfect-auto-correct.html