From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defining long abbrevs Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:08:41 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1068062921.6472.9.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068063193 5912 80.91.224.253 (5 Nov 2003 20:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 21:13:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHU1e-0001yT-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHU0p-0004oe-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHTy5-0004kX-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:09:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHTxZ-0003zy-Av for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [24.59.76.83] (helo=hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHTxN-0003YX-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: by hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3D15F4A3; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:08:42 -0500 (EST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13835 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13835 > 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