>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >>> Uwe Brauer writes: >> >>> It should have been, and was in my testing >> >> >>> Iʼve only tested my code, not proven it bug-free :-) >> >> >> I think I found a bug. I restart my emacs with your patched abbrev file >> and all my stuff, then I obtain the following error: >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" ".abbrev_defs") >> load(".abbrev_defs" nil t) >> read-abbrev-file(".abbrev_defs" t) >> quietly-read-abbrev-file(".abbrev_defs") >> command-line() >> normal-top-level() >> > What's your 'abbrev-file-name' set to? Emacs uses 'load' to read it, ,---- | abbrev-file-name is a variable defined in ‘abbrev.el’. | Its value is ".abbrev_defs" | Original value was | "/home/oub/.abbrev_defs" | | You can customize this variable. | | Documentation: | Default name of file from which to read abbrevs. `---- The default value .abbrev_defs seems odd to me shouldn't it per default be "~/.abbrev_defs" at least for Unix/BSD dialects and MacOS? > so it should be a complete pathname, ie "~/.abbrev_defs", or it should > be in your 'load-path' somewhere. But the point is. If I use the vanilla abbrev file from master I don't get an error, with your patched version I do, but I think I know what's up, I had some old abbrev.el file somewhere in my load path. Because with abbrev vanilla from emacs master, my abbrevs are not loaded. I check that and re try your patched version later (I still struggle with flyspells abbrev mechanism).