From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (X)Emacs abbrev mode
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzl2yv358.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1444.1266504194.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I was wondering if you could tell me why the following works in XEmacs and
> not in Emacs.
Because Emacs only accepts "words" as abbreviations by default.
If you want to support something else (i.e. abbreviations that contains
chars that are not marked as words in the syntax-table), then you need
to tweak your abbreviation table by setting its :regexp property.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 19:37 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-24 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-02-24 20:27 ` (X)Emacs abbrev mode Andreas Röhler
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2010-02-24 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-17 17:14 Fabrizio Sidoli
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