* non-functioning abbrev mode
@ 2020-01-12 19:20 ken
2020-01-12 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: ken @ 2020-01-12 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GNU Emacs List
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".
Perhaps a related problem, the "abbrev-save" function appears to no
longer exist.
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* Re: non-functioning abbrev mode
2020-01-12 19:20 non-functioning abbrev mode ken
@ 2020-01-12 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-24 0:36 ` ken
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-01-12 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> 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.
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* Re: non-functioning abbrev mode
2020-01-12 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2020-01-24 0:36 ` ken
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From: ken @ 2020-01-24 0:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 1/12/20 2:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.
Your crystal ball works pretty good. I don't know how it might have
gotten corrupted, but when I swapped in a backup, normality returned.
Thanks for the prognostication.
>> 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.
Yeah, I must have been thinking twenty or thirty years back in ancient
emacs history. What I was looking for was write-abbrevs... and it works.
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