From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: avoid trialing space when setting abbrev Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:26:14 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <86lgo3gjdl.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499257614 14274 195.159.176.226 (5 Jul 2017 12:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:26:54 +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 Wed Jul 05 14:26:50 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 1dSjOI-0003L1-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:26:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45987 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSjON-0000f6-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSjNy-0000en-0M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSjNu-0000JN-OM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40264 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSjNu-0000Hh-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dSjNm-0001wv-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:26:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:F+Yw0pZh9BeZ/4khDA43XLwUtA0= 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:113702 Archived-At: I usually just edit the abbrev file with `M-x edit-abbrev' to set temporary or permanent abbrevs ... rarely use the interactive form. So when seeing an abbrev... in cperl mode I might call M-x edit-abbrev and insert something like: "ffd" 0 "File::Find::dir" (then press )