From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: abbrev-mode wizardry needed
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:43:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2bjo2$ida$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145587082.390764.182920@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
dmd@3e.org wrote:
> One more thing... I'm trying to avoid having the existing text in the
> file (e.g., CAT and DOG) interfere with the namespace of the new text
> we're entering. I'd like to separate the newly entered symbols by
> prefixing them with some easily typed character like ';'. It's not
> working - dabbrev-completion doesn't seem to recognize any sort of
> punctuation as part of a symbol.
>
> Our current workaround is to enter the to-be-dabbrev'd tags as z-TAG
> instead of ;TAG, but that's slightly more ugly.
>
> Is there a way to hack dabbrev-completion to recognize ';' as part of a
> symbol?
Try setting a buffer-local value of dabbrev-abbrev-char-regexp that
allows punctuation as the first character: `\s.'
--
Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-18 22:45 abbrev-mode wizardry needed dmd@3e.org
2006-04-19 1:38 ` dmd@3e.org
2006-04-19 16:08 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-04-19 20:16 ` dmd@3e.org
2006-04-19 16:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.584.1145463682.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-19 20:20 ` dmd@3e.org
2006-04-21 2:38 ` dmd@3e.org
2006-04-21 21:43 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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