From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Roehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-lisp-mode and abbrev table Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:06:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4A3BA989.6060609@online.de> References: <87hbyd8vpw.fsf@newsguy.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 1245423907 26717 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2009 15:05:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 17:05:04 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 1MHfeJ-0006Uf-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHfeJ-00060s-3q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHfdx-0005zO-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHfds-0005vR-Oz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56087 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHfds-0005vO-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:64475) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHfdr-0007z7-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (p54BE9B9C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.155.156]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv1o-1MHfdo1lWp-000jIX; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:04:33 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) In-Reply-To: <87hbyd8vpw.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+xP6+Q7ddeDZ+nSwyBtDb1KbHt5d0UeemNHi+ 1Fy7yiZazmvZ47FbhYHCtGBILqWsxl4udQ/OnD8XbzQHtIMB1Z dRhdULDP2XLg4CmR3SQa9iBAbE69To5JOqhOsCuaMU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:65383 Archived-At: Harry Putnam wrote: > Running recent emacs from cvs > GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) of 2009-06-10 on reader > > Posted here in case this problem I'm having is 23.X related. > > I can't make an abbrev work in emacs-lisp-mode for some reason. > > There are no errors when I commit them with `Ctrl-c Ctrl-c' > > But when i return to ~/.emacs... the abbrevs don't work. > closing emacs and restarting it doesn't help either... and I see no > message about saving abbrevs when I close emacs. > > Here's an example from abbrevs table: > > (emacs-lisp-mode-abbrev-table) > > "smt" 0 "something" > > > But it doesn't work in ~/.emacs > > With .emacs open eval: major-mode shows emacs-lisp-mode > > > > for some reasons I ignore mode abbrev-table in charge usually is (lisp-mode-abbrev-table) editing this should deliver the result. Try (abbrev-table-name local-abbrev-table) Andreas