From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: abbrev_defs & capitalised words Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 15:31:36 +0300 Message-ID: <834l5k5907.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mujcnvtf.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <83blzs5lrm.fsf@gnu.org> <871s0onk19.fsf@skimble.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="157457"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 24 14:33:32 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hU9O8-000epe-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 14:33:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hU9O7-0001D1-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 08:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hU9MK-0008Og-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 08:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hU9MK-0006bn-D1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 08:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1788 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hU9MH-00047q-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 May 2019 08:31:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <871s0onk19.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (message from Sharon Kimble on Fri, 24 May 2019 12:56:02 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120616 Archived-At: > From: Sharon Kimble > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 12:56:02 +0100 > > > Did you read the doc string of 'define-abbrev'? > > I'm not sure what you mean, so I googled it, which led to [1], [2], and finally [3]. And I'm still not sure what you mean! I meant what Emacs shows when you type "C-h f define-abbrev RET". It says this: (define-abbrev TABLE NAME EXPANSION &optional HOOK &rest PROPS) Define an abbrev in TABLE named NAME, to expand to EXPANSION and call HOOK. NAME must be a string, and should be lower-case. EXPANSION should usually be a string. [...] PROPS is a property list. The following properties are special: - ‘:count’: the value for the abbrev’s usage-count, which is incremented each time the abbrev is used (the default is zero). - ‘:system’: if non-nil, says that this is a "system" abbreviation which should not be saved in the user’s abbreviation file. Unless ‘:system’ is ‘force’, a system abbreviation will not overwrite a non-system abbreviation of the same name. - ‘:case-fixed’: non-nil means that abbreviations are looked up without case-folding, and the expansion is not capitalized/upcased. - ‘:enable-function’: a function of no argument which returns non-nil if the abbrev should be used for a particular call of ‘expand-abbrev’. Note the ‘:case-fixed’ part: isn't that what you want? If so, you could modify your abbrev_defs file to make select abbrevs have fixed letter-case.