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Re: abbreviation ending with "."
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harven |
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Re: abbreviation ending with "." |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:34:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I want to have an abbreviation that turns "p." into "para"
>> (Portuguese). But all my abbreviations that end with "." are not
>> expanded. I googled around and could not find anything on this.
>
> Abbreviations by default only work if they're exclusively made up of
> "word chars" (a.k.a chars of syntax class "word").
>
> So you can either change the char "." to be a word constituent (which
> may lead to surprises), or you can change the setting on the
> abbrev-table in which you placed that "p." abbreviation.
>
> E.g. if it's added to the abbrev table named `foo-abbrev-table', you
> could do
>
> (abbrev-table-put foo-abbrev-table
> :regexp "\\<\\(\\w+\\.?\\)\\W*")
This does not seem to work. I tried the following with emacs -Q
(progn
(setq abbrev-mode t)
(define-abbrev-table 'my-abbrev-table '(
("success" "success again")
("try." "try again")))
(abbrev-table-put my-abbrev-table
:regexp "\\<\\(\\w+\\.?\\)\\W*")
(setq local-abbrev-table my-abbrev-table))
success expands as success again.
try. does not expand.
Strange enough, If I try to make a new expansion for "try." with C-x a i l,
it says that I am trying to overwrite the "try. -> try again" expansion, but
there is still no expansion. What am I doing wrong ?
I am running "GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5) of
2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian"