Re: emacs abbreviation mode

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Fabrizio Sidoli <fs@star.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Emacs appears not to like the abbreviation to have the special
> character '\'.

I was bothered by this recently as well.  It appears Emacs just uses
characters with word-syntax (see `char-syntax') for abbreviations.

There are some advantages to this, for instance a closing ")" will also
trigger an expansion, because only the word before is looked up.
(Don't know how XEmacs handles that ...)

I currently defadvice expand-abbrev with a custom syntax-table to allow
more characters.  If anybody knows a cleaner way to tweak this, I'm
interested ...


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher