From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, zsh@cs.rochester.edu, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem whith abbrevs in message-mode
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:03:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adul5imy.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202030441.g134fwE02150@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:41:58 -0700 (MST)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> This is very strange. mailabbrev.el does assume the existence
> of mail-mode-abbrev-table, as you say. But the code in
> sendmail.el seems not to have used mail-mode-abbrev-table
> until a few months ago. Perhaps this was an unreported bug.
> I had better investigate further.
>
> Maybe sendmail-pre-abbrev-expand-hook needs to always restore
> local-abbrev-table and the syntax table to whatever they were
> before it was called?
>
> I agree. The reason this was not done was an undoc feature I didn't
> know about: setting up a different, convenient syntax table for
> address headers. The feature could be useful but the implementation
> was unreliable, so I eliminated it.
>
> Does this version solve the problem?
Yes, thanks for looking into it. I've now got message-mode using
text-mode-abbrev-table and the setting takes.
> ;;; mailabbrev.el --- abbrev-expansion of mail aliases
[...]
> (defun sendmail-pre-abbrev-expand-hook ()
[...]
> (let ((local-abbrev-table mail-abbrevs)
> (old-syntax-table (syntax-table)))
[...]
I assume that let statement is the key.
--
matt
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