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bug#36243: 26.2; defining inverse abbrevs include space
From: |
Allen Li |
Subject: |
bug#36243: 26.2; defining inverse abbrevs include space |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:35:09 +0000 |
Defining an inverse abbrev in a buffer like so (@ is point):
some text foo @
C-x a i l find outer otter RET
defines an abbrev "foo " -> "find outer otter"
This abbrev is impossible to expand because it ends in a non-word
character.
It would be more convenient if the inverse abbrev definition commands
skips trailing non-word characters, e.g. in the example above defining
"foo" -> "find outer otter". The use case for this is that I often type
something that I think should be an abbrev and upon finding that it is
not defined, I must delete the previous character before using
inverse-add-{mode,global}-abbrev.
Note that this bug affects all positive prefix arguments to
inverse-add-{mode,global}-abbrev, e.g.:
some text: .... foo @
C-u 2 C-x a i l will attempt to define an abbrev "text: .... " -> "blah",
which is completely useless.
I have attached a patch fixing this, with regression tests.
In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.8)
of 2019-04-12 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12005000
0001-Fix-defining-inverse-abbrevs-on-previous-words.patch
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