Re: Abbrev should preserve case

[Stefan Monnier]

> The handling of case in abbrevs is designed to work well
> for abbreviations for words and phrases used in text.
> It is the right thing.

Agreed.  But it has since been (ab)used for things like skeletons in
programming modes where typing "case SPC" would expand to

     case  in
       *) ;;
     esac

for those kinds of uses, the capitalization footwork of abbrev.el is
rather harmful.


        Stefan