From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mailabbrev.el, mailalias.el and related package. Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:13:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200202171913.NAA01240@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200202140440.WAA20427@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200202151036.g1FAaMU07264@santafe.santafe.edu> <200202160447.WAA29111@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200202171648.g1HGmlu10290@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013974114 17405 195.204.10.66 (17 Feb 2002 19:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Feb 2002 19:28:34 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16cWzB-0004Wd-00 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:28:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16cWmS-0004up-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16cWkH-0004p3-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:13:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA28525; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:13:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id NAA01240; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:13:27 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: <200202171648.g1HGmlu10290@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 17 Feb 2002 09:48:47 -0700 (MST)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1272 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1272 I may have to correct, or at least amend, certain comments I made about mail-mode-header-syntax-table in a previous message concerning the aggressive mailabbrev expansion problem. The analysis of the problem with aggressive mailabbrev expansion was, I believe, correct. However my interpretation of the importance of mail-mode-header-syntax-table in the mailabbrev expansion process may not have been. What definitely is important is the step performed there in the definition of mail-abbrev-syntax-table. First of all, what I erroneously referred to as "the documentation string" were actually the comments. Secondly, it probably is possible to perform mailabbrev expansion correctly using only mail-abbrev-syntax-table, by invoking the lines: (or (and (integerp last-command-char) (eq (char-syntax last-command-char) ?_)) AFTER establishing the correct mail-abbrev-syntax-table and replacing the ?_ in this code by ?w That should be carefully checked, however. The intent of mail-mode-header-syntax-table as a separate syntax-table may indeed only have been the forward-sexp stuff. That is not the only intent of the syntactic changes performed there, however. To determine whether I keep or eliminate mail-mode-header-syntax-table in my new package, I will have to check whether I need it elsewhere. In essence, in my previous message, I confused the syntax table itself with the actual syntactic steps performed there. On another topic, in a previous message I sent to you, I unintentionally deleted the CC field. When I noticed this, I sent a separate copy to emacs-devel@gnu.org. I am sorry if this caused any problems or confusion. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel