From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: abbrevs in Aquamacs Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:38:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <576db2310806071950k19b04c3dk24a19e93fe74e7f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212917979 16860 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 09:39:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: dd@cs.wpi.edu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 11:40:22 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 1K5HNq-0008RE-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42818 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5HN3-0001zS-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5HMU-0001vg-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5HMR-0001ry-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5HMR-0001rh-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:33545) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5HMR-0006bC-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07412E347623; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:38:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [77.135.169.185] (helo=thursday-2.local) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1K5HMQ-0005vi-00; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:38:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <576db2310806071950k19b04c3dk24a19e93fe74e7f@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Dougherty's message of "Sat\, 7 Jun 2008 22\:50\:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) X-Sender: n_schumacher@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18uB3bON2I1dIclZ33J32EiBqSvYpGCH848nYNm 7IQXpAtJPrmKdDerj0lBzXJ2+9SF1YOnpRykwqKIoLYggHHkWA 3ntmWCSQkuWFWx5jodCQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:54613 Archived-At: "Dan Dougherty" wrote: > Shouldn't I be able to define an abbrev that expands > things like \a , \b, etc? Should? Yes. Can? No. > I've seen examples from other people, so maybe this is an > Aquamacs-specific issue? I think XEmacs supports this. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher