>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >> 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? > Just post it here. The solution posted by Robert Pluim allows a two word expansion but will be destroyed by write-abbrev-file Step to reproduce the issue. 1. Start emacs -Q (using master commit "84ec57fe06e187f41a3546131d5dae3b185c3511") 2. Create an abbrev file (see attachment) called .abbrev-doble_defs that contain (define-abbrev-table 'fundamental-mode-abbrev-table '( ("asi" "así" nil :count 0))) (define-abbrev-table 'my-abbrev-table '( ("a que" "a qué" nil :count 0)) "Uwe's table" :regexp "\\(\\w+ \\w+\\)") 3. Load files with the following lines (setq abbrev-file-name "~/ALLES/HGs/init_files/Abbrev-Doble/.abbrev-new_defs") (read-abbrev-file "~/ALLES/HGs/init_files/Abbrev-Doble/.abbrev-double_defs") (setq-default abbrev-mode t) Or any other path that is convenient. 4. Open new file in fundamental mode, say called new execute in that file (setq local-abbrev-table (list my-abbrev-table fundamental-mode-abbrev-table)) Then asi--> así and a que--> a quë 5. (write-abbrev-file "~/ALLES/HGs/init_files/Abbrev-Doble/.abbrev-new_defs") The part (define-abbrev-table 'my-abbrev-table '( ("a que" "a qué" nil :count 0)) "Uwe's table" :regexp "\\(\\w+ \\w+\\)") Is gone!