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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@googlemail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: abbrev table in cperl-mode
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:42:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsk6ujg59.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100417044853.GA10752@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu> (Ilya Zakharevich's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:48:53 -0700")

>> The attached patch does this. BTW, defining system abbrevs doesn't
>> change abbrev-changed so I leave the (let ...) out.

> The docs for my version say

>     define-abbrev-table: a built-in function.

>     Define TABLENAME (a symbol) as an abbrev table name.
>     Define abbrevs in it according to DEFINITIONS, which is a list of
>     elements
>     of the form (ABBREVNAME EXPANSION HOOK USECOUNT).

>     (define-abbrev-table TABLENAME DEFINITIONS)

> So, as minimum, it is not backward-compatible.

Actually, AFAIK it is backward compatible in that older versions just
ignore the tail of the list rather than checking that it's nil.
So older versions will just ignore the additional t.


        Stefan





      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-17 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 11:27 abbrev table in cperl-mode Leo
2010-04-16 19:12 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-04-16 20:11   ` Leo
2010-04-17  4:48     ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-04-17 11:21       ` Leo
2010-04-17 14:42       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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