Abbrevs and Comments

Abbrevs and Comments

[Roberto Huelga]

Hello, and happy new year to every body (my first mail of the year).

	I recently modify my .emacs file to make use of abbrev and skeletons 
in c-mode and c++-mode. I make that "if" expands to "if() { }" and all 
is prefect. But When I'm writing a comment or a literal the abbrev 
expands too. Is there a automatic way to don't expand in these 
situations?.

	Thanks.

Re: Abbrevs and Comments

[Roberto Huelga]

El lunes, 13 ener, 2003, a las 13:09 Europe/Madrid, Roberto Huelga 
escribió:

> Hello, and happy new year to every body (my first mail of the year).
>
> 	I recently modify my .emacs file to make use of abbrev and skeletons 
> in c-mode and c++-mode. I make that "if" expands to "if() { }" and all 
> is prefect. But When I'm writing a comment or a literal the abbrev 
> expands too. Is there a automatic way to don't expand in these 
> situations?.
>
	I finally develop a automatic way, may be not optimal but work great 
in my computer. I look the face in the current point and I modify the 
local-abbrev-table in consequence. Insert this in .emacs to try it

(add-hook 'pre-abbrev-expand-hook 'abbrev-literal-test)
(defun abbrev-literal-test()
   (let* ((face (get-text-property (point) 'face )))
     (if (or (equal face 'font-lock-comment-face)
	    (equal face 'font-lock-string-face)
	    (equal face 'font-lock-warning-face))
	(setq local-abbrev-table nil)
       (setq local-abbrev-table (eval
				(car
				 (read-from-string
				  (format "%s-abbrev-table" major-mode)))))
       )))

	If someone optimise this or found a better way, please tell me.

Re: Abbrevs and Comments

[gebser]

Abbrevs can correspond only to specific modes.  This functionality is
already built into emacs.  For example, if you're in cc-mode (what you
get when you open hello.c), put the cursor on the word "if", do "C-x
ail", you'll be prompted for an "expansion" for the word "if".  Type in 
"if() { }" (and run "M-x write-abbrev-file" if you want to save it for 
future sessions), thereafter whenever you type "if" AND are in cc-mode, 
emacs will expand it to "if() { }".  However, this will also occur in 
cc-mode when you're composing a comment-- probably not what you'd want.  
Get around this by making up some other word to replace "if", such as 
"iiff" or "si", and have that expand to "if() { }".


hth,
kf

Roberto Huelga at 18:44 (UTC+0100) on Sun, 26 Jan 2003 said:

= 
= El lunes, 13 ener, 2003, a las 13:09 Europe/Madrid, Roberto Huelga 
= escribió:
= 
= > Hello, and happy new year to every body (my first mail of the year).
= >
= > 	I recently modify my .emacs file to make use of abbrev and skeletons 
= > in c-mode and c++-mode. I make that "if" expands to "if() { }" and all 
= > is prefect. But When I'm writing a comment or a literal the abbrev 
= > expands too. Is there a automatic way to don't expand in these 
= > situations?.
= >
= 	I finally develop a automatic way, may be not optimal but work great 
= in my computer. I look the face in the current point and I modify the 
= local-abbrev-table in consequence. Insert this in .emacs to try it
= 
= (add-hook 'pre-abbrev-expand-hook 'abbrev-literal-test)
= (defun abbrev-literal-test()
=    (let* ((face (get-text-property (point) 'face )))
=      (if (or (equal face 'font-lock-comment-face)
= 	    (equal face 'font-lock-string-face)
= 	    (equal face 'font-lock-warning-face))
= 	(setq local-abbrev-table nil)
=        (setq local-abbrev-table (eval
= 				(car
= 				 (read-from-string
= 				  (format "%s-abbrev-table" major-mode)))))
=        )))
= 
= 	If someone optimise this or found a better way, please tell me.
= 
= 
= 
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Re: Abbrevs and Comments

[Romain FRANCOISE]

Roberto Huelga <rhuelga@multinterior.com> writes:

> But When I'm writing a comment or > a literal the abbrev expands
> too. Is there a automatic way to > don't expand in these situations?.

I don't know an automated way to do this, but typing C-q before the
space or the punctuation just after the word prevents it from being
expanded, e.g. the sequence i f C-q SPC will give "if " and not the
expanded version.

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