>> A good explanation is in (info "(emacs) Defining Abbrevs"): >> >> ‘C-x a i g’ (‘inverse-add-global-abbrev’) and ‘C-x a i l’ >> (‘inverse-add-mode-abbrev’) perform the opposite task: if the abbrev >> text is already in the buffer, you use these commands to define an >> abbrev by specifying the expansion in the minibuffer. These commands >> will expand the abbrev text used for the definition. > > If you like what the manual says, why not say in the doc string what > the manual says, or some simple variant of that? I doubt that you'll > be able to come up with a significantly shorter description that is > still clear enough. So here it uses the text copied from the manual: