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bug#8498: 23.3; mail-abbrev-next-line expands abbrevs when it should not
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#8498: 23.3; mail-abbrev-next-line expands abbrevs when it should not |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:00:24 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack@sas.com> writes:
>
>> In rmail, reply to a message. In my case, the From: line in the
>> *mail to...** buffer is formatted as:
>>
>> From: David.Biesack@example.com (David J. Biesack)
>>
>> (In my case, mail-from-style is 'parens ; user-full-name is "David
>> J. Biesack" )
>>
>> Position point at the end of the From: line formatted as above.
>> Press C-n which is bound to mail-abbrev-next-line
>>
>> If the text before the close parentheses ("Biesack" in this case) is also a
>> defined mail abbrev (i.e. in my ~/.mailrc file) such as
>>
>> alias biesack David.Biesack@example.com
>>
>> then mail-abbrev-next-line will expand that name, yielding:
>>
>> From: David.Biesack@example.com (David J. David.Biesack@example.com)
>
> It's unfortunately been over eight years since you sent this bug report,
> but you didn't get a response at the time.
>
> I've tried reproducing this in Emacs 27, but I'm unable to. Looking at
> the code, it does look like it's been changed quite a bit in the
> intervening years -- do you still see this bug?
The email bounced, and since I'm unable to reproduce it, I'm closing
this bug report. If somebody else can reproduce it, please reopen.
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