Re: [O] [OT] wildcards in autocorrect?

[Samuel W. Flint]

There's something on endless parentheses that will let you generate a 
correction abbrev with a keystroke.

Samuel W. Flint
Please forgive any typos as this was composed on a screen keyboard.

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I make a lot of typing errors (I have an injury to one hand, which impedes 
> bilateral cooperation). In Libreoffice I am able to define wildcard 
> autocorrect objects, e.g.:
> 
> oc.* ---> co.*
> 
> This will correct ocrrect, ocmputer, ocndition, etc.  Does anyone know a way 
> to do something similar in Emacs? Right now I am using abbrev mode and 
> defining my errors one by one -- it is a very slow process since I make so 
> many mistakes and have a moderately large vocabulary.  
> 
> I am sure this is possible somehow, I just don't know how.
> 
> thanks as always,
> m
> 
>