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@node Abbrevs
words in the buffer that start with those letters. @xref{Dynamic
Abbrevs}.
- ``Hippie'' expansion generalizes abbreviation expansion.
+ A third kind, @dfn{hippie expansion}, generalizes abbreviation expansion.
@xref{Hippie Expand, , Hippie Expansion, autotype, Features for
Automatic Typing}.
that you can eliminate those that you don't use often. The string at
the end of the line is the expansion.
- Some abbrevs are marked with @samp{(sys)}. These ``system'' abbrevs
+ Some abbrevs are marked with @samp{(sys)}. These @dfn{system abbrevs}
(@pxref{Abbrevs,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}) are
pre-defined by various modes, and are not saved to your abbrev file.
-To disable a ``system'' abbrev, define an abbrev of the same name that
+To disable a system abbrev, define an abbrev of the same name that
expands to itself, and save it to your abbrev file.
@findex edit-abbrevs
in this search; if it is @code{nil}, the word and the expansion must
match in case. If the value is @code{case-fold-search} (the default),
then the variable @code{case-fold-search} controls whether to ignore
-case while searching for expansions (@pxref{Search Case}).
+case while searching for expansions (@pxref{Lax Search}).
@vindex dabbrev-case-replace
Normally, dynamic abbrev expansion preserves the case pattern
@code{nil}, the expansion is always copied verbatim. If the value is
@code{case-replace} (the default), then the variable
@code{case-replace} controls whether to copy the expansion verbatim
-(@pxref{Replacement and Case}).
+(@pxref{Replacement and Lax Matches}).
However, if the expansion contains a complex mixed case pattern, and
the dynamic abbrev matches this pattern as far as it goes, then the