From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: command rebuild-mail-abbrevs Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301503262 18257 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 16:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 18:40:58 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 1Q4yS2-0005cM-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:40:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4yS1-0003Kc-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.57.124.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301502387 20386 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2011 16:26:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.57.124.249; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186420 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:80541 Archived-At: On Mar 29, 3:06=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Alan > > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:06:59 -0700 (PDT) > > > 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). =A0After 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. =A0The rebuild-mail-abbrevs > > command is > > ;; similar, but will delete existing aliases first. > > It isn't only mentioned in the comment, it is defined on that file, > mailabbrev.el. > > Is the problem that the command is not documented in the manual, or is > the problem that you cannot invoke the command? =A0If the latter, try > "M-x load-library RET mailabbrev RET" before invoking the command. The "problem" is that the command is not documented in the manual. I have no trouble using the command.