* emacs abbreviation mode
@ 2007-06-10 16:02 Fabrizio Sidoli
2007-06-10 23:27 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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From: Fabrizio Sidoli @ 2007-06-10 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is the correct address to be sending this request to
so please forgive me if it is not.
I was wondering if you could tell me why the following abbreviation for
LaTex works under XEmacs but not under Emacs.
(define-abbrev-table 'tex-mode-abbrev-table '(
("\\ha" "{\\H$\\alpha$} " nil 0)
.
.
.
))
In XEmacs, if I typed '\ha' I would get in return '{\H$\alpha$}', this
does not seem to work in Emacs. Emacs appears not to like the abbreviation
to have the special character '\'. In Emacs, the following does work
however.
("ha" "{\\H$\\alpha$} " nil 0)
Note the absence of the first two '\'. I
Many thanks,
Fabrizio
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* Re: emacs abbreviation mode
2007-06-10 16:02 emacs abbreviation mode Fabrizio Sidoli
@ 2007-06-10 23:27 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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From: Nikolaj Schumacher @ 2007-06-10 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: Fabrizio Sidoli
Fabrizio Sidoli <fs@star.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Emacs appears not to like the abbreviation to have the special
> character '\'.
I was bothered by this recently as well. It appears Emacs just uses
characters with word-syntax (see `char-syntax') for abbreviations.
There are some advantages to this, for instance a closing ")" will also
trigger an expansion, because only the word before is looked up.
(Don't know how XEmacs handles that ...)
I currently defadvice expand-abbrev with a custom syntax-table to allow
more characters. If anybody knows a cleaner way to tweak this, I'm
interested ...
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
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