Re: About abbrevs and spaces at end of line

[Matthias Pfeifer <mpfeifer77@gmail.com>]

Hi Harry,

If you take some time to get comfortable with emacs hippie-expand that
might be an option, too. hippie-expand overloads the tab key with a list of
functions and chooses one that fits to the current position. There is also
a function that expands abbrevs before point.

matthias



2013/12/10 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>

> Am 10.12.2013 12:08, schrieb Harry Putnam:
>
>  Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>>
>>  Am 09.12.2013 22:46, schrieb Harry Putnam:
>>>
>>>> Is there some smooth way to avoid having a space at the end of line
>>>> when activating an abbrev as the last thing done before newline?
>>>>
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>  The short and long is: Invoking with spc leaves unsightly marks like
>>>> an underscore if done at the end of a line and invoking with <RET> is
>>>> not always desirable if a new line is not needed.
>>>>
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>> I have visions of some tricky way of setting up an abbrev with hardly
>>>> any more effort than the normal
>>>>
>>>>      M-x edit-abbrevs <RET>
>>>>
>>>>      "tru"       0          "\"TRUE\";"
>>>>
>>>> In the cperl-table, then pressing C-c
>>>>
>>>> Where I only need to edit the cperl abbrev table.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Problem results from binding abbrev-expand to SPACE.
>>> Abbrev is expanded, than SPACE is inserted, as you typed it.
>>>
>>> Solution: abbrev-mode off. Use any other key to M-x expand-abbrev RET.
>>> This will expand it, but not insert a space.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> After looking into this a bit, I'm not seeing a handy way to set
>> something else permanently.
>>
>> In fact it appears there are nearly half a dozen ways to invoke
>> expansion.
>>
>> space, <RET>, C-x ' (At least two more key combos that I already
>> forgot)
>>
>> So there must be a list or regex or something.
>>
>>
> Do you mean "list of keys"?
>
>
>  I'd like to add some other char to the list somehow.
>>
>>
> Are you asking how to bind another key onto expand-abbrev command?
>
>
>  Any clues how I might do that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> BTW another solution might advice abbrev-expand with (delete-char -1) -
> which would DTRT with <space> only.
>
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