bug#42611: 26.3; edit-abbrevs lets me type and commit, but doesn't store anywhere and abbrevs don't work

[Brett Randall]

Thanks Lars, it works now that I understand the formatting requirement. Appreciate your help.

Brett

On October 27, 2020, 10:08 PM GMT+11 larsi@gnus.org wrote:

Brett Randall <brett.randall@gmail.com> writes:

> 1 emacs -Q
> 2 M-x edit-abbrevs
> 3 Scroll to last line - (global-abbrev-table)
> 4 Append: "dfn" 0 "definition"
> 5 C-c C-c (removes "modified" flag)
> 6 C-x k
> 7 M-x edit-abbrevs
> 8 Scroll down to last line - abbreviation is not there

Thanks.

The format of that buffer is very specific, though. The entries must be
on the format:

(global-abbrev-table)

"def" 0 "definition"

with one blank line between the name of the section and the start of the
definitions; neither more nor less. If you do it that way, does the
mode work for you?

In any case, I don't quite see why it's that strict about the format: It
should just grok all the lines between the sections, I think?

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