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From: Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com>
Subject: Re: defining long abbrevs
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:08:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068062921.6472.9.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uhe1i3bv7.fsf@standardandpoors.com>

> C-u C-x a g should work.

Perhaps I should be more specific.  I can type C-x a g or C-u C-x a g
and get the last word or sentence (or even count words with ESC number
C-x a g).  But the problem I'm running into is that if I do that Emacs
is "guessing" about what I want, and doesn't always guess correctly.  

Is there any way to mark text and then C-x a g it?  I tried M-x
abbrev-prefix-mark and all it did was insert a - into the buffer at the
text position.

I figure there has to be some way..

-Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-05 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3175.1067991731.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-05 18:35 ` defining long abbrevs Galen Boyer
2003-11-05 20:08   ` Dan Anderson [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3261.1068062972.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-05 21:41     ` Johan Bockgård
2003-11-04 23:19 Dan Anderson

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