From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: command rebuild-mail-abbrevs Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:06:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83zkodr8ss.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301429247 7344 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 20:07:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:07:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 22:07:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4fCE-0005No-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:07:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4fCD-0002nR-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38110 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4fAz-0002ir-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4fAy-0007zX-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:42114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4fAy-0007z4-B7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIU00C0054RYU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:06:02 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIU00CZK561SX20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:06:02 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:80513 Archived-At: > From: Alan > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:06:59 -0700 (PDT) > > Years ago, when I was first using Emacs 19.34, I learned to rebuild my > mail aliases/abbreviations using the command "rebuild-mail- > abbrevs" (it was probably "rebuild-mail-aliases" back then, but I > typically use tab expansion after typing "rebuild" anyway). After a > long sojourn in XEmacs I have now returned to > > GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO > > and I don't find that command mentioned in > > Info Node (emacs) Mail Aliases > > nor in the rest of the Emacs Info files nor in the Elisp Info files. > This is somewhat surprising. > > It is mentioned, inside "mailabbrev.el", in the following introductory > comment: > > ;; To read in the contents of another .mailrc-type file from emacs, > use the > ;; command Meta-X merge-mail-abbrevs. The rebuild-mail-abbrevs > command is > ;; similar, but will delete existing aliases first. It isn't only mentioned in the comment, it is defined on that file, mailabbrev.el. Is the problem that the command is not documented in the manual, or is the problem that you cannot invoke the command? If the latter, try "M-x load-library RET mailabbrev RET" before invoking the command.