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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non-functioning abbrev mode
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:43:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837e1w795a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8f5244f-b453-6d55-0cdf-f9af0e7466e8@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:20:04 -0500)

> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:20:04 -0500
> 
> It must be twenty years now that I've been using abbrev mode, never with
> a problem.  But a few days ago it ceased working.  For instance, one
> common abbrev "wtih" is automatically replaced by "with".  This has
> always worked fine.  But now, although it says "Abbrev" on the status
> line, nothing happens when I type "wtih".

Crystal ball says your abbrev_defs file disappeared or got corrupted.

> Perhaps a related problem, the "abbrev-save" function appears to no
> longer exist.

There was never such a function in Emacs, AFAICT.  Maybe it's
something you defined in your init files?  There's a _variable_ named
save-abbrevs, though.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-12 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-12 19:20 non-functioning abbrev mode ken
2020-01-12 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-24  0:36   ` ken

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