loading local abbrevs

loading local abbrevs

[Héctor Lahoz]

Hi.

I'd like to load a file with local abbrevs when I edit any file in
a given directory. So I put a local variable like:

eval: (read-abbrev-file "abbrev_defs")

but it can't find the abbrev_defs. I think it has to do with
load-path. What can I do? I don't want to use an absolute
path because the path might be changed.

Re: loading local abbrevs

[tomas]

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Héctor Lahoz wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to load a file with local abbrevs when I edit any file in
> a given directory. So I put a local variable like:
> 
> eval: (read-abbrev-file "abbrev_defs")
> 
> but it can't find the abbrev_defs. I think it has to do with
> load-path. What can I do? I don't want to use an absolute
> path because the path might be changed.

`read-abbrev-file' calls on `load', which uses the variable
`load-path' to decide where to look for the file. So perhaps
one possibility would be to include "." (i.e. the current
directory) in `load-path': I wouldn't recommend that (to be
honest, I'd be a bit scared to do that, but YMMV).

The other possibility would be to provide an absolute path,
along the lines of

  (read-abbrev-file
    (concat default-directory "abbrev_defs"))

or thereabouts. Season to taste ;-)

cheers
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Re: loading local abbrevs

[Héctor Lahoz]

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> The other possibility would be to provide an absolute path,
> along the lines of
> 
>   (read-abbrev-file
>     (concat default-directory "abbrev_defs"))

It works. Thanks. :-)

Re: loading local abbrevs

[Stefan Monnier]

>     (concat default-directory "abbrev_defs"))

You mean (expand-file-name "abbrev_defs" default-directory)
aka (expand-file-name "abbrev_defs")


        Stefan

Re: loading local abbrevs

[tomas]

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:26:53AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >     (concat default-directory "abbrev_defs"))
> 
> You mean (expand-file-name "abbrev_defs" default-directory)
> aka (expand-file-name "abbrev_defs")

Ahem... yes.

(thanks :-)

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