Abbrevs in Emacs and its limited namespace problem Abbrevs in Emacs are tables of expansions of short words to arbitrary longer strings. This is commonly called a “text replacement” in other editors. The canonical example of an abbrev/text replacement[fn:meta_joke] is “omw” → “on my way”. Of course you could make more sophisticated abbrevs—e.g., replace a few letters with lines of #include <stdio.h> type boilerplate. A limitation I encountered with this was how easily my abbrevs could clash with normal text....

Problem You can’t set the key repeat rate beyond a certain amount in the Windows 10 Control Panel. There are some recommendations to change some registry settings, but even that doesn’t work; it only changes the setting in the Control Panel that you could change anyway. I like keys repeating very quickly because it allows quick navigation in text files. GNU/Linux desktop environments already let you choose any repeat rate you want....