From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: special characters for abbrev Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:05:47 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2qzjtno.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372882217 3963 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2013 20:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 20:10:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 03 22:10:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UuTNb-0006fl-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:10:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuTNa-0001hZ-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:10:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hBrTc4EmHWiVjIIcLR4Z6wmGCL4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199653 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91920 Archived-At: Muhali writes: > I am sure that in a previous (not so old) Emacs version I could > use the '`' character for abbreviations, e.g. `fu for function. > With the current Emacs (24.3) this is no longer possible, and I > am not able to find anything in the help. This has to do with the definition of a word. Place point after 'u' in `fu - then, hit M-b. See, you don't get past the '`'. I asked about this a while back; you might benefit from the answer. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71101 -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573