bug#8498: 23.3; mail-abbrev-next-line expands abbrevs when it should not

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack@sas.com> writes:

> In rmail, reply to a message. In my case, the From: line in the
> *mail to...** buffer is formatted as:
>
> From: David.Biesack@example.com (David J. Biesack)
>
> (In my case, mail-from-style is 'parens ; user-full-name is "David J. Biesack" )
>
> Position point at the end of the From: line formatted as above.
> Press C-n which is bound to mail-abbrev-next-line 
>
> If the text before the close parentheses ("Biesack" in this case) is also a
> defined mail abbrev (i.e. in my ~/.mailrc file) such as 
>
>   alias biesack David.Biesack@example.com
>
> then mail-abbrev-next-line will expand that name, yielding:
>
> From: David.Biesack@example.com (David J. David.Biesack@example.com)

It's unfortunately been over eight years since you sent this bug report,
but you didn't get a response at the time.

I've tried reproducing this in Emacs 27, but I'm unable to.  Looking at
the code, it does look like it's been changed quite a bit in the
intervening years -- do you still see this bug?

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