From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Trying to set an abbreviation in a custom mode Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:40:23 -0800 (PST) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228707648 1644 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2008 03:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 03:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 04:41:51 2008 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 4.50) id 1L9X0H-0003Rr-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9Wz5-0005Lm-RB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.234.132.53 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228704023 22560 127.0.0.1 (8 Dec 2008 02:40:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 02:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.234.132.53; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165111 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:60438 Archived-At: I tried the following code to get "sop" as an abbreviation for "System.out.println" in a custom mode but it doesn't appear to work: (define-abbrev global-abbrev-table "sop" "System.out.println(") Another alternative would be for me to import java-mode-abbrev-table into the current mode. Any hints on how to do this? Here is my version info (from M-x report-emacs-bug) In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-27 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'