abbrev-mode in LaTeX-mode uses text-mode-abbrev-table

[Reuben Thomas]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-10-27 on daffy.perf.redhat.com
configured using `configure  --host=i386-redhat-linux
--build=i386-redhat-linux --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include
--libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
--sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

[Originally posted to g.e.help, Stefan Monnier suggested I report it a
bug.]

I am using abbrev-mode in LaTeX-mode (sic, I'm using AUCTeX). I define
all my abbreviations using C-x a l (add-mode-abbrev) and I just
noticed when using edit-abbrevs that my abbreviations are mostly in
text-mode-abbrev-table. I say mostly, because some of them had ended
up (often duplicated) in log-edit-mode-abbrev-table. What is going on
here? Why is there no LaTeX-mode-abbrev-table? More importantly, how
is Emacs choosing which table to add abbrevs to? (I can see how it
might be something like "the mode table corresponding to the last
major mode I used that has a mode table": I'm using CVS, so I do use
log-edit-mode.)


Recent input:
<return> M-x g n u s <return> <return> d d d d d d
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d n n n n n C-p C-n M-x
e m c a s - r e p o a <tab> <backspace> <backspace>
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> a c s - r e p o
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
b u g <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o r t - e
m <tab> <return>

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