bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

[Charles Millar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

I posted the following message to help-gnu-emacs and should demonstrate 
the possible bug. (Please note that I made one minor correction, i.e.- 
"buffer" instead of "butter."

 > emacs version GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 344, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
 > Version 3.24.23, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-12-31
 >
 > I have a buffer "learnabbrev.txt" open with abbrev-mode enabled,
 >
 > and in my init file,
 >
 > (setq abbrev-suggest t)
 > (setq abbrev-suggest-hint-threshold 0).
 >
 > My (global-abbrev-table) includes:
 >
 > "foo"           1    "find outer otter"
 >
 > (I checked to make sure that foo expanded to "find outer otter.")
 >
 > When I start to enter "find outer otter," and no matter how many
 > letters I enter, including the entire phrase, there are no suggestions
 > in the echo area.
 >
 > If I understand the info entries for abbrev-suggest and
 > abbrev-suugest-hint-threshold, should not a hint show in the echo
 > area, even after I type the first "f?"

Best,

Charlie Millar

bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> writes:

>> (setq abbrev-suggest t)
>> (setq abbrev-suggest-hint-threshold 0).
>>
>> My (global-abbrev-table) includes:
>>
>> "foo"           1    "find outer otter"
>>
>> (I checked to make sure that foo expanded to "find outer otter.")
>>
>> When I start to enter "find outer otter," and no matter how many
>> letters I enter, including the entire phrase, there are no suggestions
>> in the echo area.

It'll only give you a suggestion once you've typed the entire phrase --
it doesn't know whether you're going to write something else, after all.

And it seems to work find for be -- after I've typed "find outer otter"
(and a bit more), I get a message saying "You can write ‘find outer
otter’ using the abbrev ‘bar’."  (But you have to let Emacs idle before
getting the message.)

So I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 28.

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bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

[Charles Millar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

On 7/19/21 8:59 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
> 
>>> (setq abbrev-suggest t)
>>> (setq abbrev-suggest-hint-threshold 0).
>>>
>>> My (global-abbrev-table) includes:
>>>
>>> "foo"           1    "find outer otter"
>>>
>>> (I checked to make sure that foo expanded to "find outer otter.")
>>>
>>> When I start to enter "find outer otter," and no matter how many
>>> letters I enter, including the entire phrase, there are no suggestions
>>> in the echo area.
> 
> It'll only give you a suggestion once you've typed the entire phrase --
> it doesn't know whether you're going to write something else, after all.
> 

OK. I misunderstood the documentation.

> And it seems to work find for be -- after I've typed "find outer otter"
> (and a bit more), I get a message saying "You can write ‘find outer
> otter’ using the abbrev ‘bar’."  (But you have to let Emacs idle before
> getting the message.)
> 
> So I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 28.
> 

Thank you.

Previously I entered the phrase plus a space, but obviously not wait 
long enough for the hint to appear.

bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Charles Millar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> OK. I misunderstood the documentation.

No prob.  I'm closing this bug report, then.

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