Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > What about `case-sensitive'? For me as non-english
>> > speaker `folding' is not easy to follow because of the
>> > word-sence - as something knitting into. Sensitive as
>> > awareness is understood from the beginning.
>> 
>> Could work, but also suffers from the fact that the current behavior (which
>> expands `sm' to `stefan monnier' but `Sm' to `Stefan Monnier'") can be
>> considered as being "sensitive" to case.
>> 

> Beside of case-sensitivity another theme is in the
> pipe: to allow multi-word abbrevs.

Since I've installed my code this is now possible.  Just set the :regexp
property of the abbrev table accordingly.

> As it's wanted for translations, cases in one language
> (abbrevs) should not predict i.e. force cases in
> expansion.

It's easier to write ad-hoc code than to try and extend abbrevs to "do the
right thing" for that kind of unusal situation.


        Stefan