bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

[Charles Millar]

On 7/19/21 8:59 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > > (setq abbrev-suggest t)
> > > (setq abbrev-suggest-hint-threshold 0).
> > >
> > > My (global-abbrev-table) includes:
> > >
> > > "foo"           1    "find outer otter"
> > >
> > > (I checked to make sure that foo expanded to "find outer otter.")
> > >
> > > When I start to enter "find outer otter," and no matter how many
> > > letters I enter, including the entire phrase, there are no suggestions
> > > in the echo area.
>
> It'll only give you a suggestion once you've typed the entire phrase --
> it doesn't know whether you're going to write something else, after all.

OK. I misunderstood the documentation.

> And it seems to work find for be -- after I've typed "find outer otter"
> (and a bit more), I get a message saying "You can write ‘find outer
> otter’ using the abbrev ‘bar’."  (But you have to let Emacs idle before
> getting the message.)
>
> So I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 28.

Thank you.

Previously I entered the phrase plus a space, but obviously not wait 
long enough for the hint to appear.