Re: abbrevs and cursor control

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> After poring over C-h f define-abbrev I got sort of close I guess, but
> this:
>
> (define-abbrev TABLE NAME EXPANSION &optional HOOK COUNT SYSTEM-FLAG)
>
> Though its the kind of thing lisp programmers consider the epitome of
> lucid. Its not very helpfull to laypeople.  No indication of where
> parens might go or other really usefull stuff.
>
> I tried this:
>
> (define-abbrev cperl-mode-abbrev-table "hpb" "" hp-pbase 0 )

(define-abbrev cperl-mode-abbrev-table "hpb" "" 'hp-pbase)

Does this work?

> This piece from C-h f:
>   If EXPANSION is not a string, the abbrev is a special one,
>   which does not expand in the usual way but only runs HOOK.
>
> Kind of sounds like EXPANSION shouldn't be a string at all.  Not even
> the empty one "".

Yes, try nil instead of "".  You already know more about
define-abbrev than I do :-)

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