>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> I swear that worked some time ago.

> This was discussed on the emacs-devel mailing list, and apparently it
> never worked? 

Well RMS said no, Stefan said in principal yes.


>  But reading that discussion, it seems like this is
> under-documented.  Could you suggest something for the manual after you
> actually get this working?  :-)

Robert (Pluim) presented a solution that works, however it seems that
write-abbrev-file destroys Robert's construct in the .abbrev_defs
file. 

I am trying to set up a recipe to reproduce that behavior. If I do that,
should I open a new bug or just post it here?