RE: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols

[Drew Adams]

> There are the dynamic abbrevs facilities, M-\ and C-M-\.  

And the little-known but there-forever and useful `dynamic-completion-mode,
from built-in library `completions.el'.  (The file Commentary is the doc.)
The keys for it are, by default, `C-RET' and `M-RET'.

> They search through the open buffers looking for completion candidates.
> They're included by default in hippie-expand's completers.  Personally,
> I prefer that style of completion to abbrev.

The use is different, but yes, very useful.

> You could use a similar strategy with normal abbrev though.  Load up
> a set of Elisp files that are typical of your personal usage.  You
> could then use the code in dabbrev-expand or dabbrev-completion to find
> the completions you want.  You could wrap that in a bit of Elisp and run
> it once to generate a table, then decide on the abbrevs manually or by
> taking a prefix.

Yes.

> Martin mentions that the Emacs sources themselves contain some code
> that's frowned upon these days.  That's true, there are many old
> parts of Emacs.  The parts that are new are a good guide though.  There
> are some peculiarities even there though, Emacs code doesn't use certain
> features to avoid loading them when Emacs starts, easymenu for
> example.

+1.