Re: Emacs-CVS and abbrevs

[Richard Stallman]

    The reason is that sml-mode defines a few abbrevs and does not
    mark them as `system' for the simple reason that this extra argument
    didn't exist before Emacs-CVS.

Marking them as "system" is the right thing to do.

    I think we should change it so that abbrevs are not considered
    modified whenever you call define-abbrev, but only if you call
    one of the interactive interfaces to it.

That would lead to incorrect results from other commands that
call define-abbrev to define a user abbrev.