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Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should pre
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case) |
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Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:09 -0400 |
- :case-preserve non-nil means that abbreviations are lookedup without
case-folding, and the expansion is not capitalized/upcased.
It seems like a mistake to make this a per-table decision.
In every abbrev table, abbrevs should preserve case by default.
To define an abbrev that is only detected in a particular case
is an exception, so each abbrev needs to be marked if it is
to work that way.
- :syntax-table holds the syntax table to use to find the relevant word.
Why do we want this?
- :abbrev-before-point-function holds a function to use to find the
abbrev at point.
Why do we want this?
- :enable-function can be set to a function of no argument which returns
non-nil iff the abbrevs in this table should be used for this instance
of `expand-abbrev'. Useful to disable skeleton-abbrevs in strings and
comments.
That feature is useful, but shouldn't it be per-abbrev, not per-table?
If we have some abbrevs that are from skeletons, and some abbrevs that
are not, we don't want to have to put them in different abbrev tables.
- allow local-abbrev-table to hold a list of abbrev tables so minor
modes can add their own abbrev tables as well (useful for mailabbrev.el).
The right way to do this is to have minor-mode-abbrev-table-alist
which would work like minor-mode-map-alist.
+(defvar abbrev-auto-activated-tables t
+ ;; Could be expanded to be a predicate.
+ "List of abbrev tables that can be used when `expand-abbrev' is called
implicitly.
+If t, use all installed tables.")
Is this the best way to design the feature so that `mail-abbrevs-only'
can use it? Ideally we want some hook function to test
`mail-abbrevs-only' and DTRT, so that setting or binding
`mail-abbrevs-only' in any fashion has the right effect. That is the
case with the current code in mailabbrev.el. I don't want to take
a step backwards.
- Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case), Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/10
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case), Andreas Röhler, 2007/10/11
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case),
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/12
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/13
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Andreas Röhler, 2007/10/14
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/15
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Andreas Röhler, 2007/10/15
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/16
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/16
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/17
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/17
- Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/17