Re: Using punctuation in abbrev

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Actually, if you call M-x expand-abbrev RET explicitly, you'll see they
>> all work.  What doesn't work for the first two is the "press space after
>> it to cause expansion", because this is only performed right after
>> a word char (hence it works for "$foo" because the last char is a word
>> char).
> I see, thanks.
> I've just looked at it: it's done in src/cmds.c:434 so behavior can't
> be changed from Lisp, too bad.

The code that calls expand-abbrev from self-insert-command is indeed in
C, so you can't change it from Elisp, but that code also runs
post-self-insert-hook, so you can add a function to that hook which will
call expand-abbrev for the missing case.


        Stefan