Thanks Lars, it works now that I understand the formatting requirement. Appreciate your help.

Brett

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On October 27, 2020, 10:08 PM GMT+11 larsi@gnus.org wrote:

Brett Randall <brett.randall@gmail.com> writes:


>> 1 emacs -Q

>> 2 M-x edit-abbrevs

>> 3 Scroll to last line - (global-abbrev-table)

>> 4 Append: "dfn" 0 "definition"

>> 5 C-c C-c (removes "modified" flag)

>> 6 C-x k

>> 7 M-x edit-abbrevs

>> 8 Scroll down to last line - abbreviation is not there


> Thanks.


> The format of that buffer is very specific, though. The entries must be

> on the format:


> (global-abbrev-table)


> "def" 0 "definition"


> with one blank line between the name of the section and the start of the

> definitions; neither more nor less. If you do it that way, does the

> mode work for you?


> In any case, I don't quite see why it's that strict about the format: It

> should just grok all the lines between the sections, I think?


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