Re: [PATCH] Add abbrev suggestions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:16:33 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Are you sure it is a good idea to make this non-nil by default?
> > Wouldn't some users consider these suggestions an annoyance?
> 
> No, I'm not. In fact, it was not the default when I started working on
> this, but Stefan suggested that it might be a good default. Now we're
> me and you against him, I guess... :)

Let's start with having it opt-in.  We can later see if it is popular
enough to become the default.

> > > +(defun abbrev--suggest-above-threshold (expansion)
> > > +    "Return t if we are above the threshold.
> > 
> > Who is "we" in this context?  This should be explained.
> 
> I know, I was not happy when I wrote that. "we", here, is something
> like "the difference in length between what the user typed and the
> abbrev that we found." I guess I could not find a good way to keep the
> first sentence of the docstring short, so I opted for the fuzzy "we"
> expression...

How about the below?

  Return non-nil if an abbrev in EXPANSION provides significant savings.

> > > +EXPANSION is a cons cell where the car is the expansion and the
> > > +cdr is the abbrev."
> > 
> > Our style is to include the arguments in the first sentence of the doc
> > string.
> 
> I know. Frankly I don't know if I can come up with a suggestion that
> combines that together with having a relatively short first
> sentence...

See above.

> Should I include those changes in the same patch and resend
> that when done?

Yes, please.