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bug#21828: 24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21828: 24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:11:49 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 18:03:52 +0000
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee B <lboc.home@gmail.com>, 21828@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > (This bug was there ever since we rewrote abbrev.c in Lisp 8 years
> > ago.)
>
> Oh, the beauty of writing tests.
> Is that a sign that this function isn't really used at all and might
> as well be marked as obsolete? :-D
It is not used in Emacs. But the OP evidently needed it, so making it
obsolete is premature, I think.
Btw, the bug was in define-abbrev, not in copy-abbrev-table. The
former is even more fundamental for abbrevs, and certainly cannot be
obsoleted.