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Re: non-functioning abbrev mode
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: non-functioning abbrev mode |
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Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:43:45 +0200 |
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:20:04 -0500
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> It must be twenty years now that I've been using abbrev mode, never with
> a problem. But a few days ago it ceased working. For instance, one
> common abbrev "wtih" is automatically replaced by "with". This has
> always worked fine. But now, although it says "Abbrev" on the status
> line, nothing happens when I type "wtih".
Crystal ball says your abbrev_defs file disappeared or got corrupted.
> Perhaps a related problem, the "abbrev-save" function appears to no
> longer exist.
There was never such a function in Emacs, AFAICT. Maybe it's
something you defined in your init files? There's a _variable_ named
save-abbrevs, though.