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From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs does not know state of my abbrevs
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:25:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEySM9HVyLmck++CtLah9qbhYfKL7iJ_3wP0DyGwZrxLmKS+yw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pp81yyz4.fsf@gmail.com>

On 22 March 2015 at 13:54, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After I M-x (edit-abbrevs) followed by my desired changes, I do
> M-x (abbrev-edit-save-buffer) which saves my abbrevs in my
> /Users/guivho/emacs-guivho/abbref-devs.
>
> If I then quit Emacs, it asks:
> "Save abbrevs in /Users/guivho/emacs-guivho/abbref-devs (y or n)"
>
> I have not defined nor changed any abbrevs since the previously
> described (abbrev-edit-save-buffer), so why does it insist upon
> bothering me with a question that is totaly irrelevant?
>
> There must be some setting to control this behavior, but I fail to
> discover it.
>

Sorry to answer my own question, but for the record:

The file does change whenever an abbrev is used: the usage count gets
stepped up.

I changed (setq save-abbrevs t) into (set
​q​
save-abbrevs 'silently) and that fixed thi
​n​
gs as desired.

​Guido​


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-22 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-22 12:54 Emacs does not know state of my abbrevs Guido Van Hoecke
2015-03-22 14:25 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2516.1427034345.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-22 23:07   ` Emanuel Berg

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