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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
	andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Abbrev should preserve case
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:02:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtzt1gmjs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I1QWP-0004kW-26@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 13\:32\:41 -0400")

> The handling of case in abbrevs is designed to work well
> for abbreviations for words and phrases used in text.
> It is the right thing.

Agreed.  But it has since been (ab)used for things like skeletons in
programming modes where typing "case SPC" would expand to

     case  in
       *) ;;
     esac

for those kinds of uses, the capitalization footwork of abbrev.el is
rather harmful.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-21 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-20 17:48 Abbrev should preserve case Andreas Röhler
2007-06-20 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-21  3:47   ` Davis Herring
2007-06-21  4:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21  7:10       ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-21  8:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21  9:00           ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-21  7:00     ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-21 17:32   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 19:02     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-06-22 16:25       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22 21:53           ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 21:14             ` Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case) Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 19:57               ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-12 15:59               ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 21:26                 ` Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff Stefan Monnier
2007-10-13  6:41                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 17:45                     ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-15 16:04                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 18:04                         ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-16  4:10                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 20:26                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-17  5:03                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 14:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 20:48                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24  2:21                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-25  2:10                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26  5:44                           ` Testing new abbrev tables in elisp Stefan Monnier
2007-10-26 19:13                             ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-26 21:38                               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28 14:13                                 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-28 21:03                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 15:10                                     ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-31  7:47                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-03 20:29                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-04  0:11                                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-04  2:42                                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-04 21:06                                               ` Andreas Röhler
2007-11-05  8:47                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 16:09                                     ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-31 17:44                                       ` Stefan Monnier

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