bug#16788: local abbrev-file-name ignored

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> from Emacs -Q
>
> First line in buffer contains
>
> -*- abbrev-file-name: "PATH/TO/LOKAL_ABBREV_FILE" -*-
>
> M-x add-mode-abbrev RET ...
>
> stores an abbrev.
>
> After M-x edit-abbrev RET ...
>
> saving the result however stores it into the default abbrev-file.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)

If I understand this report correctly, the request here is really to
support buffer-local abbrev-file-name variables, which abbrev.el doesn't
really do at all today.  Skimming the code and the documentation, it
doesn't seem like abbrev supports anything like that -- it has one
global variable for all the abbrevs, so even if we had a buffer-local
file name, all the abbrevs would end up there?

So supporting this would be a major rewrite of abbrevs, and I haven't
really seen any other requests for that, so I'm closing this bug report.

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