Re: Abbrev table keeps getting messed

[Harry Putnam]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>>
>>> Here lately there is one particular abbrev I've added repeatedly.
>>> When I add it, I test it right then.... it works, but when I try it
>>> later it doesn't work, then when I  `M-x edit-abbrevs' again I see it
>>> jacked up.  (I'll show in a moment)
>>
>> Are there no takers on why this abbrev keeps causing grief?
>
>
> It looks like a possible bug in Emacs. Could you please try with the
> latest Emacs (23.2) or Emacs development trunk to reproduce it?

This was with emacs devel:

GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.7) 
                                    of 2010-03-14 on reader
Why do you think its a bug in emacs?  Have there been similar reports?