Re: Characterset for Abbrevation names limited

[Glenn Morris]

Wilmar Igl wrote:

> sofar it is not possible to use characters other the [a-Z][0-9] as names 
> of abbreviations when using <add-global-abbreviation>.
> To avoid conflicts with emacs abbreviations and other acronyms used in 
> the text I would suggest to allow non-alphabetical/non-number characters 
> like, [!"#%&/].

It's not that simple. Because of the way abbrevs are expanded, the
characters in an abbrev must all be recognized as part of a word.
So in general it's not possible to allow arbitrary characters (eg `!')
in abbrevs. In specific modes that change the syntax of some
characters to be word constituents, these characters can be used in
abbrevs.