From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non word abbrevs Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:15:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2F7AC7B8-48AA-4BF3-B5AA-A4141F248109@traduction-libre.org> <4097001A-F60D-4712-B828-EA778BFCF56E@traduction-libre.org> <2067AA83-8EC0-4429-9189-9E3CCCFD06BB@traduction-libre.org> <976C9A57-FA22-4E47-AF16-C1B20C66E451@traduction-libre.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13094"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VF8yjVKW8wC2fGUMSAzFEKxNdt0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 07 04:15:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjYer-0003I0-Gz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 04:15:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjYeq-0006mM-38 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:15:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjYeT-0006mB-14 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:15:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjYeR-0008IM-6T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjYeO-0002kq-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 04:15:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134431 Archived-At: >> so it looks like the "auto expand abbrev" feature only works right after >> a word char, so basically only works for abbrevs whose last char has >> word syntax. > Which kind of defeats the idea of being able to define a regex in the first place... Not completely: the original motivation for adding that `:regexp` keyword was to handle abbrevs of the form "`foo" as well as others of the form "foo/bar" ;-) >> You might want to `M-x report-emacs-bug` and request that this >> constraint be made more flexible. > I will. Thank you again. In the mean time, you might be able to implement a `post-self-insert-hook` which runs expands your abbrevs. You could start with something like: (add-hook 'post-self-insert-hook #'my-expand-arrow-abbrevs) (defun my-expand-arrow-abbrevs () (if (memq (char-before) '(?= ?< ?-)) (expand-abbrev))) -- Stefan