Re: getting abbrev table objects given a string with the same name

[Kevin Rodgers]

Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> How can I do something like the following:
>
> (define-abbrev (concat "c-mode" "-abbrev-table") "foo" "bar" nil)
>
> What I want is to define an abbrev based on an abbrev table name that
> is dyamically built.  The problem is, the 1st arg to define-abbrev
> must be an abbrev table, not a string.  So, the problem becomes, how
> can I get an abbrev table, given a string with the same name.

You need to get from a string, to a symbol with the same name (with
intern), to it's value (with symbol-value):

(symbol-value (intern (concat "c-mode" "-abbrev-table")))

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Kevin Rodgers