From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Guido Van Hoecke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs does not know state of my abbrevs Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:25:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427034356 3079 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2015 14:25:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:25:56 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 22 15:25:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YZgp9-0006V7-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:25:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51231 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZgp8-0003xD-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZgox-0003x6-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZgor-0004Zd-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::236]:34387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZgor-0004ZN-3i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: by ykfc206 with SMTP id c206so61399344ykf.1 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:25:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=pYqynWl6PZThyA/aPp7eN7ESWO81og5MCTA7qaMCRUc=; b=M2yvW8jKr3OK8+96GwbWjHSs9UgKbS7FE1O2azqcUspWyXRhugNaXsIiGiFAtFbqBT B0rWR69IxefCu6iNn9CF2gFGOERmt8fo9TpOR4VPlMcmQKHzCYD1d2ag0tT47/ZXVz3d oWj2zG1h0/Ai0zyR7AIOzwRxwQvuDXt8Fod/Nx439/v1M943BVly2gHGXO/iug1aOR6I ThsJXhnhUqLP2UM7n9+BnxRf7dAU6Ps76nNsP6kNoa/USWESfXlcj7uS2+Yq72RiVxTO jYGhMwcfwwTMaEcHIYlLAbPwbAIYEyzlf2AYXen/9Ewo1XPals3AZuPKFtWggUAkMQTZ 1Dtw== X-Received: by 10.52.31.66 with SMTP id y2mr31316688vdh.16.1427034336553; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.77.7 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:25:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::236 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103254 Archived-At: On 22 March 2015 at 13:54, Guido Van Hoecke 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 =E2=80=8Bq=E2=80=8B save-abbrevs 'silently) and that fixed thi =E2=80=8Bn=E2=80=8B gs as desired. =E2=80=8BGuido=E2=80=8B