abbrev and escapes

abbrev and escapes

[harven]

Here is a sample code that works with emacs22 in fundamental or tex mode.
It expands \med into \medskip.

(progn
   (clear-abbrev-table my-table)
   (define-abbrev-table 'my-table '(
      ("success" "success again")
      ("\\med"   "\\medskip")))
   (setq local-abbrev-table my-table)
   (setq abbrev-mode t)                      
   (setq words-include-escapes t))

Unfortunately, it does not work anymore with emacs23.
I tried tweaking the new :regexp property to no avail.

(abbrev-table-put my-table :regexp  "\\<?\\(\\\\?\\w+\\)\\W*")

I also tried
 "\\(\\(\\\\\\|\\<\\)\\w+\\)\\W*"
 "\\(\\(\\<\\|\w\\)\\w+\\)\\W*"
 "\\(\\<?\\\\?\\w+\\)\\W*"
 "\\(\\\\?\\w+\\)\\W*"

The closest I came is  "\\(\\\\\\w+\\)\\W*"
that expands \med but, of course, not success.

What am I doing wrong here ?

BTW, isn't there a typo in the manual ? 
The default regexp given there (36.8 Abbrev Table Properties)
is "\\<\\(\\w+\\)\\W" and does not seem to work, but the one that comes with
the definition of define-abbrev-table is "\\<\\(\\w+\\)\\W*" (and it works)

Re: abbrev and escapes

[Stefan Monnier]

> Unfortunately, it does not work anymore with emacs23.

Try M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan