From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "dmd@3e.org" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: abbrev-mode wizardry needed Date: 20 Apr 2006 19:38:02 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1145587082.390764.182920@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1145400330.172655.223820@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145587242 23557 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 02:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 04:40:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWlZL-0005uK-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWlZL-00060s-47 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.224.193.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1145587090 2711 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2006 02:38:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:38:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1145400330.172655.223820@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.224.193.21; posting-account=YNygTA0AAAC27Fzxt5A53qBThpG901WD Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138914 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34532 Archived-At: One more thing... I'm trying to avoid having the existing text in the file (e.g., CAT and DOG) interfere with the namespace of the new text we're entering. I'd like to separate the newly entered symbols by prefixing them with some easily typed character like ';'. It's not working - dabbrev-completion doesn't seem to recognize any sort of punctuation as part of a symbol. Our current workaround is to enter the to-be-dabbrev'd tags as z-TAG instead of ;TAG, but that's slightly more ugly. Is there a way to hack dabbrev-completion to recognize ';' as part of a symbol? Daniel Drucker