When `dabbrev-expand' is invoked with many buffers and it fails to find an expansion, there is an annoying forced pause while it scans every buffer and emits uninteresting progress messages. If these messages are removed, a failed expansion is nearly instantaneous, so I don't see any benefit to having progress messages. Patch attached. /s 2007-07-22 Sean O'Rourke * dabbrev.el (dabbrev--scanning-message): removed. (dabbrev--find-expansion): remove calls.