Actions that triggered the bug: M-x edit-abbrevs Enter abbrevs in fundamental or global abbreviations at bottom of the list, e.g.: "dfn" 0 "definition" C-c C-c Buffer appears committed (modified flag disappears). Close buffer, test the abbrev in "abbrev-mode" minor mode and nothing happens. M-x edit-abbrevs again. The definition I entered is no longer there. This is in the same session. Emacs was not closed/reopened. The definitions are not applying/temporarily saving. In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-cygwin) of 2019-08-31 built on moufang2 Repository revision: 522486e90a3d9402d836c2186be9e73299423cd9 Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19041 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Quit (New file) Making completion list... Abbrev mode enabled in current buffer Saving all Org buffers... done Configured using: 'configure --srcdir=/home/kbrown/src/cygpackages/emacs/emacs-26.3-2.x86_64/src/emacs-26.3 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs/html -C --with-w32 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygpackages/emacs/emacs-26.3-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/emacs-26.3-2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygpackages/emacs/emacs-26.3-2.x86_64/src/emacs-26.3=/usr/src/debug/emacs-26.3-2' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS=' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GLIB NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XIM THREADS LCMS2 Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: global-auto-revert-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils jka-compr info elec-pair org-element avl-tree generator org org-macro org-footnote org-pcomplete pcomplete org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline easy-mmode org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob ob-tangle org-src ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob-keys ob-exp ob-comint comint ansi-color ring ob-core ob-eval org-compat org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs edmacro kmacro advice autorevert filenotify arjen-theme finder-inf package easymenu epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind gfilenotify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 165726 13709) (symbols 48 27132 1) (miscs 40 72 220) (strings 32 55598 1442) (string-bytes 1 1610203) (vectors 16 22900) (vector-slots 8 589906 9136) (floats 8 97 210) (intervals 56 320 176) (buffers 992 16)) Brett