From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: capitalised in 'abbrev_defs'? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:15:27 +0200 Message-ID: <86eft2s3c0.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87r2x2qqj4.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501143386 6233 195.159.176.226 (27 Jul 2017 08:16:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:16:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 27 10:16:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dadxz-0001Cc-C2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:16:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dady3-0000aB-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dadxQ-0000YH-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dadxN-0007fl-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36853 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dadxN-0007ex-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dadxB-0007H8-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:15:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:OBfL1RJ0f2WkaKVj7Qs6YA5jLew= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113889 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble wrote: > Whenever I save a new addition to > 'abbrev_defs' that is capitalised it is > *always* saved in lower case. How do I get it > to save as capitalised please? See ‘:case-fixed’ in (info "(elisp) Abbrev Properties") The reason this isn't there by default is to have a more (?) intelligent system that will capitalize the abbrev expansion differently for the same abbrev input, depending on the capitalization of the input. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573