From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5936@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5936: 23.1.95; fix a bug in abbrev--before-point
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:15:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbaiaat5konk.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzl18sf9b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:25:16 -0400")
On 2010-04-12 19:25 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> If you use the :regexp property in an abbrev table, all abbrevs in that
>> table will fail except those with only one char.
>
> Not at all. But you may get such a result if you use a naive regexp, yes.
>
>> This is because of a regexp match in abbrev--before-point which only
>> looks back one char.
>
> No, this is because the regexp you have to use must match part of the
> text *before* the abbrev. That's why the doc for define-abbrev-table
> gives as example \<\(\w+\)\W* rather than just \(\w+\)\W*.
Thank you for the clarification.
The bug can be closed.
> Stefan
Leo
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2010-04-12 15:19 bug#5936: 23.1.95; fix a bug in abbrev--before-point Leo
2010-04-12 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-15 10:15 ` Leo [this message]
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