From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cmic@live.fr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: dabbrev and regexp chars Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 07:08:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2cc48308-ee12-4dfe-8c03-9ae6fccea552@m40g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234119402 8443 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:56:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 08 19:57:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWEqm-0005Wt-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:57:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWEpT-0002B4-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:56:31 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m40g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.163.222.232 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1234105691 756 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2009 15:08:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m40g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.163.222.232; posting-account=2v86PQkAAAAHg43k7aMJslWJWbLWrWiz User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166695 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:34:45 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62008 Archived-At: Hi I want to dynamically expand Perl variables like $something or even %this_hash. An old doc says to modify variable dabbrev-abbrev-char- regexp. But it doesn't work (on Emacs 21.x and 22.x) and this variable doesn't seems to exit anyway. Any hint ? tya