From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:36:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv9c8mqov.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zh1kjyg4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:15:23 +0200")
> 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`).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-07 20:10 did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words» Uwe Brauer
2021-01-07 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 20:29 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-07 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-01-07 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 8:20 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 10:55 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 13:28 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 14:05 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 15:23 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 18:05 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 18:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 21:06 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-09 12:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-01-09 13:39 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-09 13:42 ` [BUG? write-abbrev-file destroys this construction] (was: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».) Uwe Brauer
2021-01-09 6:37 ` did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words» Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:11 ` [adding abbrev using two-word-expansions] (was: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».) Uwe Brauer
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