From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Characterset for Abbrevation names limited
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:57:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18049.43015.320374.60575@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I2ucR-00013Q-80@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote (on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 at 15:53 -0400):
> > and/or include a similar comment into the function description.
> > Otherwise an uninformed user might use the unsupported characters like
> > [!"#%&/] and register the failure of the function and
> > interpret it as a bug.
>
> I suggest making that function give an error if the abbrev contains
> invalid characters.
>
> Would you like to do that?
I'm going on holiday for a couple of weeks, I can look at it when I
return. Someone else might wish to do it before then.
(This is about define-global-abbrev, continued from bug-gnu-emacs).
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2007-06-26 23:57 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-06-27 2:19 ` Characterset for Abbrevation names limited Stefan Monnier
2007-06-27 2:56 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-27 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
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