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For questions related to short forms of words or phrases.

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Is it necessary to include aria-label for ?

I am currently learning about developing for accessibility and I'm going down the list of tags. When using abbreviations, I would normally type: ASAP For VoiceOver, it reads the full-attribute (not sure about…
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How to abbreviate "number of " in source code?

I'm new to learning Java and I'm bad at English but I try my best to write good, understandable source code. I want to make variables to save the "number of cars" or "number of items". How do I abbreviate "number of ..." without using symbols like #…
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Define persistent abbreviations in Vim

Vim does not seem able to create global abbreviations. So I created an abbreviations file (called autocorrect.vim) with the following line in my .vimrc file: :source ~/autocorrect.vim I then manually added my abbreviations to this file. If I work…
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Why can container IDs be abbreviated in docker but not image tags, container names or image digests?

Given, on the repository I have a situation like this: $ docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE myrepo:5000/myimage latest 1c3c75da38df 3 days ago…
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How to abbreviate Chrome, Safari and Opera?

How do I abbreviate Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera? I know that (MS)IE goes for (Microsoft) Internet Explorer and Fx is for Firefox. What about the rest?
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How to abbreviate long names in a dataframe for R?

I'm working with a dataframe that has really long names that is more than 25 characters. I'm trying to make a bar graph (with plotly) with all of these organizations name, but the names get cut off because they're super long. I've already tried to…
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Allowable abbreviations list in Sonar

We have some abbreviations we regularly use in our code base around product names (e.g. everyone refers to Big Long Product Name as "BLM" and in code we have classes like BLMDataParser). Sonar flags all such classes wanting them to be…
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WPF Spellcheck shows abbreviations as error, because of trailing dot

I am experiencing a problem with WPF built-in SpellCheck for Textbox, when i am using an abbreviation, for example "e.g." for "en" language. The word gets underlined, but not the trailing dot. In the list of suggestions the same word is provided,…
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How to access 'Abbreviation' field of a custom list in NetSuite custom lists

I have a custom list that is used as a matrix option of Inventory item. Its 'Color'. This custom list has an abbreviation column. I am creating a saved search on item and using Color field(join) and trying to access 'Abbreviation' field of…
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Abbreviation for EventArgs

Is there a possibility to declare an abbreviation for some types like DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs so the lines don't get too long? I have a method declared like this: static void HtmlChanged(DependencyObject depObj,…
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Eclipse Contentassist full abbrev only

When I like to create a new variable of type ImageObserver and the line starts like this: IO and I press Ctrl+Space , I get a couple of wrong suggestions! Suggestions for abbrevs that do not fully match! Eclipse's content assist suggestions…
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Get a state name from abbreviation

I have an app in place that returns states abbreviation if the state is clicked. I would like to put a user message in place in the app that would require the actual state name and not the abbreviation. If I click New York state, I have "NY"…
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R: Abbreviate state names in strings

I have strings with state names in them. How do I efficiently abbreviate them? I am aware of state.abb[grep("New York", state.name)] but this works only if "New York" is the whole string. I have, for example, "Walmart, New York". Thanks in…
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How to use abbreviations in Vim with arguments?

In Vim, you can make it so each time you write "FF" on insert mode changes to some code by using: :iab FF for ( int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ ) But is there any way to use this with arguments? Something like C's #defines, so if I write FF(e, 10) It…
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Get longer time zone name in PHP

Given a time zone abbreviation like "EST", I can get "America/New York" by using timezone_name_from_abbr. Is there any function that returns something like "Eastern Standard Time"?
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