From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:06:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s93b0kx.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvczyfgoo5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
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>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> table?". That can't be both two words separated by a space and a
>> single word at the same time, ie using
>>
>> "\\(\\w+ \\w+\\)\\|\\(w+\\)
> Note that these regexps will be matched via `re-search-backward` so
> \\(w+\\) will typically only match a single character (it stops at the
> *rightmost* match).
> Another way to go about it is to construct the regexp from the set of
> abbrevs using `regexp-opt`.
Robert's solution works, the only downside is that I need and additional
(setq local-abbrev-table (list my-abbrev-table fundamental-mode-abbrev-table))
In each buffer which is a bit cumbersome.
Are you saying this could be avoided using regexp-opt? If so how?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-07 20:10 did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words» Uwe Brauer
2021-01-07 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 20:29 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-07 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-07 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 8:20 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 10:55 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 13:28 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 14:05 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 15:23 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 18:05 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-08 18:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-08 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 21:06 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2021-01-09 12:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-01-09 13:39 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-01-09 13:42 ` [BUG? write-abbrev-file destroys this construction] (was: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».) Uwe Brauer
2021-01-09 6:37 ` did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words» Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:11 ` [adding abbrev using two-word-expansions] (was: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».) Uwe Brauer
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