From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: abbrevs, skeletons, and comments
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:24:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odjxvhyn.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1180794889.290796.147660@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com
nobrowser@gmail.com writes:
> In a module I'm writing, I'd like to bind abbrevs to code skeletons,
> similar to what is done e.g. by sml-mode. But expanding the abbrevs
> makes no sense when the point is inside a comment (or a string
> literal). So I'd like to conditionally stop expansion. The main
> opportunity for that seems to be pre-abbrev-expand-hook, but there are
> only two ways it can stop an expansion: 1, throw an error, 2, change
> the abbrev bindings (either by making changes in the current table or
> by swapping in a whole new table). 1 is unacceptable - how many errors
> before user gets mad and disables abbrevs altogether? 2, how to undo
> the changes when the point leaves the comment or string?
>
maybe use an error handler that catches that specific error and ignores it?
Tim
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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-03 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-02 14:34 abbrevs, skeletons, and comments nobrowser
2007-06-03 3:24 ` Tim X [this message]
2007-06-03 4:44 ` nobrowser
2007-06-03 10:32 ` Tim X
2007-06-03 13:31 ` nobrowser
2007-06-03 11:43 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-06-11 9:20 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-12 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 18:30 ` Johan Bockgård
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