Re: (un)expand-region-abbrevs

[Andreas Röhler]

On 06.06.2014 13:15, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Uwe Brauer writes:
>
>   > I find expand-region-abbrevs quite useful, so would it be possible
>   > to have the inverse function? Unexpand-region-abbrev?
>
> I don't see why you believe there would be an inverse.  Suppose I have
> abbrevs
>
> u -> Uwe
> b -> Brauer
> ub -> Uwe Brauer
>
> What should (unexpand-region-abbrev "Uwe Brauer") return?

It would check the word ahead if part of expansions.
Than select the longest match, in this case "ub".