Re: Troubles with abbrev-mode

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Sep 27 2006, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
[...]
> If you know what's going on, you can handle it, but for a normal user
> without any knowledge about how abbrev-mode works it's simply wrong
> accoring to the docs.
>
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Defining Abbrevs") ]

[...]
>> `message-mode' derived from `text-mode': Do we have guidelines /
>> conventions / best practice in Emacs on how to deal with abbrevs in
>> derived modes?
>
> As I'm not really involved in emacs development I don't know. Should I
> start a new thread about point 2 in gmane.emacs.devel?

Maybe a good idea.

[...]
>> I don't have a strong opinion here (as I don't know what the docs
>> suggest here).
>
> At least you have to admit that it's inconvenient for the user if he
> adds abbrevs interactively, but they don't work.

Sure.

[...]
>>       (setq local-abbrev-table rs-message-mode-abbrev-table))
>>     [...]
>> ... but I don't exactly recall it's purpose. At least, I have some
>> abbrevs in message-mode that are not present in text-mode.
>
> But you alway added them with `edit-abbrevs', not interactively with
> `add-mode-abbrev' or `inverse-add-mode-abbrev', right?

Probably I've edited ~/.abbrev_defs manually (I don't change my
abbrevs often: the time stamp says 2005-11-30).

Bye, Reiner.
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