Re: How can I turn on abbrev mode by default?

[Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>]

jan <janmar@iprimus.com.au> writes:

> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
> 
> > > Go to the customization for cperl-mode-hook by doing:
> > > 
> > >   M-x customize-option RET cperl-mode-hook
> > > 
> > > Then click on INS and type into the field:
> > > 
> > >   abbrev-mode
> > 
> > When I do that it tells me "No match".  CPerlmode is installed in my
> > .emacs.d/lisp directory.  Could this be the problem?
> 
> Another approach is to just add this to your .emacs file.
> 
> (add-hook 'hack-local-variables-hook
> 	  #'(lambda ()
> 	      (when (eq major-mode 'cperl-mode)
> 		(abbrev-mode 1))))

It seems more appropriate to do

  (add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook 'abbrev-mode)

or maybe

  (add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook #'(lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))

> 
> But why not turn it on all the time. Abbrevs are mode sensitive
> anyway. It's even simpler too.
> 
> (add-hook 'hack-local-variables-hook
> 	  #'(lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))

If that's truly what you want... This seems too much like a
shotgun-approach to me, tho': if you find yourself using it in
most of your modes, then maybe having an alist of modes to
either enable or disable it in might be slightly better...

Just my 2¢
-Micah