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> Nice! Binding this to "ifx" works great. But I can't get it to bind to
> "if(". Is it possible?

Emacs's abbrevs can only be made of characters whose syntactic category is
"word".  I think XEmacs has lifted this limitation, but it hasn't been
implemented in Emacs (yet: any taker?).


        Stefan