Re: About abbrevs and spaces at end of line

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 10.12.2013 12:08, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> Am 09.12.2013 22:46, schrieb Harry Putnam:
>>> Is there some smooth way to avoid having a space at the end of line
>>> when activating an abbrev as the last thing done before newline?
>
> [...]
>
>>> The short and long is: Invoking with spc leaves unsightly marks like
>>> an underscore if done at the end of a line and invoking with <RET> is
>>> not always desirable if a new line is not needed.
>
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> I have visions of some tricky way of setting up an abbrev with hardly
>>> any more effort than the normal
>>>
>>>      M-x edit-abbrevs <RET>
>>>
>>>      "tru"       0          "\"TRUE\";"
>>>
>>> In the cperl-table, then pressing C-c
>>>
>>> Where I only need to edit the cperl abbrev table.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Problem results from binding abbrev-expand to SPACE.
>> Abbrev is expanded, than SPACE is inserted, as you typed it.
>>
>> Solution: abbrev-mode off. Use any other key to M-x expand-abbrev RET.
>> This will expand it, but not insert a space.
>
> Thank you.
>
> After looking into this a bit, I'm not seeing a handy way to set
> something else permanently.
>
> In fact it appears there are nearly half a dozen ways to invoke
> expansion.
>
> space, <RET>, C-x ' (At least two more key combos that I already
> forgot)
>
> So there must be a list or regex or something.
>

Do you mean "list of keys"?

> I'd like to add some other char to the list somehow.
>

Are you asking how to bind another key onto expand-abbrev command?

> Any clues how I might do that?
>
>
>

BTW another solution might advice abbrev-expand with (delete-char -1) - which would DTRT with <space> only.