From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33443-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33443: 26; Doc of Edit Abbrevs mode
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:20:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y39kf62c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad7a45e6-d8ff-4ff1-8efa-25d7ffc524e9@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:54:08 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:54:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> Edit-Abbrevs mode defined in `abbrev.el' (`edit-abbrevs-mode'):
> Major mode for editing the list of abbrev definitions.
>
> This mode runs the hook `edit-abbrevs-mode-hook', as the final or penultimate step
> during initialization.
>
> key binding
> --- -------
>
> C-c Prefix Command
> C-x Prefix Command
>
> C-c C-c edit-abbrevs-redefine
>
> C-x C-s abbrev-edit-save-buffer
> C-x C-w abbrev-edit-save-to-file
>
> [One of those help lines is 82 chars long, BTW.]
Yes.
> You have to roam around in the source file a bit to find out what you're
> looking at and what you can do with it. In particular, the doc of
> `edit-abbrevs' tells you what you're looking at and what you can do with
> what you're looking at. It is...
I added to the doc string of 'edit-abbrevs-mode' a reference to
'edit-abbrevs', where this stuff is described. This mode is
specifically designed for editing in such a buffer, so I see no need
to repeat the documentation there, as users are unlikely to turn that
mode by themselves.
> ("Current buffer" is wrong here, BTW, as what is meant
> by it is not the buffer of buffer *Abbrevs* but the
> buffer that you came from to create buffer *Abbrevs*.)
No, "current buffer" is not wrong, since the editing buffer is
prepared for editing abbrevs of the buffer that is current when the
function is invoked.
> Similarly, the doc in the Emacs manual (node `Abbrev Concepts' is not
> very helpful. It tells you how you can use (expand) an existing abbrev,
> but it says nothing about how to create an abbrev, for instance.
"Abbrev Concepts" is not where this is described. Please read the
following sections.
Thanks.
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