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> derived mode of fundamental-mode.  text-mode's abbrev table gets
> copied, fundamental-mode's not.  I believe that whatever behavior for

Oh, I see.  I didn't know there was a fundamental-mode-abbrev-table.
How odd!
fundamental-mode has no local keymap, no hook, no nothing (basically)
but it has its own abbrev-table.

Does anybody know why there is such a thing ?


	Stefan