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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: Troubles with abbrev-mode
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:52:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v97izmz984.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871wpx1whw.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de

On Wed, Sep 27 2006, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
[...]
> If you know what's going on, you can handle it, but for a normal user
> without any knowledge about how abbrev-mode works it's simply wrong
> accoring to the docs.
>
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Defining Abbrevs") ]

[...]
>> `message-mode' derived from `text-mode': Do we have guidelines /
>> conventions / best practice in Emacs on how to deal with abbrevs in
>> derived modes?
>
> As I'm not really involved in emacs development I don't know. Should I
> start a new thread about point 2 in gmane.emacs.devel?

Maybe a good idea.

[...]
>> I don't have a strong opinion here (as I don't know what the docs
>> suggest here).
>
> At least you have to admit that it's inconvenient for the user if he
> adds abbrevs interactively, but they don't work.

Sure.

[...]
>>       (setq local-abbrev-table rs-message-mode-abbrev-table))
>>     [...]
>> ... but I don't exactly recall it's purpose. At least, I have some
>> abbrevs in message-mode that are not present in text-mode.
>
> But you alway added them with `edit-abbrevs', not interactively with
> `add-mode-abbrev' or `inverse-add-mode-abbrev', right?

Probably I've edited ~/.abbrev_defs manually (I don't change my
abbrevs often: the time stamp says 2005-11-30).

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 18:56 Troubles with abbrev-mode Tassilo Horn
2006-09-26 20:14 ` Reiner Steib
2006-09-26 21:33   ` Tassilo Horn
2006-09-27  7:56     ` Reiner Steib
2006-09-27  9:36       ` Tassilo Horn
2006-09-29 20:52         ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2006-09-29 22:17           ` Tassilo Horn
2006-09-30  8:02             ` Reiner Steib

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