Re: emacs modifies (s/fd/ad/) C code as you type(!)

[Jim Meyering]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>    This is pretty nasty.  I typed `int fd;' and later got a compile
>    failure because it had been converted (as I typed!) to `int ad;'.
>
> I can not reproduce this.  Maybe your .abbrev_defs or whatever your
> value of abbrev-file-name is, has gotten corrupted.  Does the problem
> still happen when you temporarily rename that file before doing `emacs -q'?
>
> I bet you must have inadvertently added an abbrev "fd" expanding into
> "ad" either to global-abbrev-table or to c-mode-abbrev-table.
>
> This has happened occasionally to me too.

You've nailed it.
This garbage somehow crept into my .abbrev_defs file:

(define-abbrev-table 'c-mode-abbrev-table '(
    ("fd" "ad" nil 0)
    ))

Thank you!