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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    Kai> Abbrevs are intended for words, presumably # is not part of
    Kai> the word and thus ignored.  (If you had made an expansion
    Kai> for " d", you'd have seen the same.)

I miss the abbrev functionality when $SomeReallyLongVariable M-/
fails to expand in c-perl/shell mode.

Perhaps it can be expanded to the programming modes too or atleast
put on the TODO list.