Re: Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff

[Richard Stallman]

    >     BTW: when doing translations it might be of interest to
    >     expand the word/phrase after point instead before.
    >
    > I would rather not add a feature solely for the goal of maximum 
generality.
    > So let's leave this out.

It seems to me that if you want to do something like this you can
implement the mechanism easily enough on your own.  But you wouldn't
have to implement it yourself, because you could do this by expanding
the word before point.