From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About abbrevs and spaces at end of line
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:47:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A6FF60.3000101@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txehotf3.fsf@newsguy.com>
Am 10.12.2013 12:08, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> Am 09.12.2013 22:46, schrieb Harry Putnam:
>>> Is there some smooth way to avoid having a space at the end of line
>>> when activating an abbrev as the last thing done before newline?
>
> [...]
>
>>> The short and long is: Invoking with spc leaves unsightly marks like
>>> an underscore if done at the end of a line and invoking with <RET> is
>>> not always desirable if a new line is not needed.
>
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> I have visions of some tricky way of setting up an abbrev with hardly
>>> any more effort than the normal
>>>
>>> M-x edit-abbrevs <RET>
>>>
>>> "tru" 0 "\"TRUE\";"
>>>
>>> In the cperl-table, then pressing C-c
>>>
>>> Where I only need to edit the cperl abbrev table.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Problem results from binding abbrev-expand to SPACE.
>> Abbrev is expanded, than SPACE is inserted, as you typed it.
>>
>> Solution: abbrev-mode off. Use any other key to M-x expand-abbrev RET.
>> This will expand it, but not insert a space.
>
> Thank you.
>
> After looking into this a bit, I'm not seeing a handy way to set
> something else permanently.
>
> In fact it appears there are nearly half a dozen ways to invoke
> expansion.
>
> space, <RET>, C-x ' (At least two more key combos that I already
> forgot)
>
> So there must be a list or regex or something.
>
Do you mean "list of keys"?
> I'd like to add some other char to the list somehow.
>
Are you asking how to bind another key onto expand-abbrev command?
> Any clues how I might do that?
>
>
>
BTW another solution might advice abbrev-expand with (delete-char -1) - which would DTRT with <space> only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 21:46 About abbrevs and spaces at end of line Harry Putnam
2013-12-10 8:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-12-10 11:08 ` Harry Putnam
2013-12-10 11:47 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-12-10 11:53 ` Matthias Pfeifer
2013-12-11 12:29 ` Harry Putnam
2013-12-11 13:03 ` Andreas Röhler
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2013-12-11 20:54 ` duthen.mac.01
2013-12-11 20:55 ` duthen.mac.01
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