From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wilmar Igl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Characterset for Abbrevation names limited Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:17:22 +0200 Message-ID: <467A7A62.40202@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182431792 17548 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 13:16:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:16:32 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 15:16:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1MWS-0001rV-Da for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:16:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1MWR-0001U9-OS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1MWO-0001Tp-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1MWM-0001TV-RH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1MWM-0001TR-MP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp2.ki.se ([130.237.98.101]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1MWM-0007qK-C9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp2.ki.se (smtp2.ki.se [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AD883DC01A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:14:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (130-237-102-47.meb.ki.se [130.237.102.47]) by smtp2.ki.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7393DC003 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:14:04 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15971 Archived-At: Hi, sofar it is not possible to use characters other the [a-Z][0-9] as names of abbreviations when using . To avoid conflicts with emacs abbreviations and other acronyms used in the text I would suggest to allow non-alphabetical/non-number characters like, [!"#%&/]. Example: M-x add-global-abbrev RET !myabbr RET Best, Will * E-mail: wilmar.igl[AT]gmx.de