From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand =?utf-8?B?wqt0d28gd29y?= =?utf-8?B?ZHPCuw==?= to =?utf-8?Q?=C2=ABtwo?= different =?utf-8?Q?words=C2=BB=2E?= Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:40:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83v9c8jxar.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871rewmrsh.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83zh1kjyg4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25523"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 22:03:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxcRK-0006VN-M2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:03:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40644 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxcRI-0000FK-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxc51-0008Co-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxc51-0001Jr-86; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3138 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxc4o-0006sr-JD; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:40:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:36:52 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262711 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Uwe Brauer , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:36:52 -0500 > > > An “abbrev” is a word that has been defined to “expand” into a specified > > “expansion”. When you insert a word-separator character following the > > abbrev, that expands the abbrev—replacing the abbrev with its expansion. > > For example, if ‘foo’ is defined as an abbrev expanding to ‘find outer > > otter’, then typing ‘f o o .’ will insert ‘find outer otter.’. > > > > This mean a word-separator character cannot be part of an abbrev. > > That's true for the default behavior. > Since Emacs-24, abbrev tables do support abbrevs whose name includes > non-word characters, but it requires extra work on the part of the user > in order to characterize the possible names via the `:regexp` property > (see `C-h o define-abbrev-table`). Then I guess we did a poor job of documenting that extension.