Re: suppress insertion of SPC after SPC expands abbrev

[Kevin Rodgers]

Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> I want to prevent the SPC from getting inserted when an abbrev is
> expanded, much like C-x ' does.
>
> The following thread from 1992 discusses this:
>
> 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=WMESARD.92Sep4121833%40tofu.oracle.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Demacs%2Babbrev%2Bsuppress%2Bspace%26btnG%3DSearch
>
> None of those solutions looked very clean.  Is there any way in
> current emacs to do this?

Why not bound SPC to something like:

(defun expand-abbrev-or-self-insert ()
  (interactive)
  (or (expand-abbrev) (insert last-command-char)))

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Kevin Rodgers