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Numeronymize
A Keyboard Maestro macro for shortening words with the number of letters between the first and last.
With the cursor blinking at the end of the word, type ⌃⌥⌘3 (on standard American keyboards, the number symbol, #, is on the 3 key). This is the cool part, because has an e option that means “evaluate.” It treats the replacement as a chunk of Perl code, evaluates it, and returns the result. Thanks to Ian Brown for making the Emacs extension and to Anil Dash for bringing it to wide attention.
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