bug#30737: [patch] global-abbrev-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But what if you have a variable in a program called "teh"?  Or, as a
> more practical use case, consider this: in a few places in Emacs we
> have a variable named "defalt", because using "default" gets in the
> way for some reason.  Having this turned on globally will silently
> "correct" these variable names, and could cause you real trouble.
>
> This is what I fear.

Yeah, I don't think a global abbrev mode would be generally useful, so
I'm closing this bug report.

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