From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-functioning abbrev mode Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:43:45 +0200 Message-ID: <837e1w795a.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="58618"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 20:46:03 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iqj9i-000yoG-AR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:44:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqj9h-0005U9-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:44:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqj9A-0005Sk-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:43:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqj9A-0002YH-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4424 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iqj9A-0006kf-0M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:43:40 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from ken on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:20:04 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:122212 Archived-At: > From: ken > 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.