From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: command rebuild-mail-abbrevs Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301425772 17727 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 19:09:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:09:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 21:09:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4eI9-0005zN-Vu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4eAx-00013j-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:01:59 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l14g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.225.103.35 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301422021 24495 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2011 18:07:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l14g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=131.225.103.35; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186385 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80509 Archived-At: Years ago, when I was first using Emacs 19.34, I learned to rebuild my mail aliases/abbreviations using the command "rebuild-mail- abbrevs" (it was probably "rebuild-mail-aliases" back then, but I typically use tab expansion after typing "rebuild" anyway). After a long sojourn in XEmacs I have now returned to GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO and I don't find that command mentioned in Info Node (emacs) Mail Aliases nor in the rest of the Emacs Info files nor in the Elisp Info files. This is somewhat surprising. It is mentioned, inside "mailabbrev.el", in the following introductory comment: ;; To read in the contents of another .mailrc-type file from emacs, use the ;; command Meta-X merge-mail-abbrevs. The rebuild-mail-abbrevs command is ;; similar, but will delete existing aliases first.