Re: Troubles with abbrev-mode

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Sep 26 2006, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> a) The abbrevs for `message-mode' I defined with `edit-abbrevs'. Then I
>    started writing a message (in `message-mode') and wondered why my
>    abbrevs don't expand. I inserted a new abbrev with
>    `add-mode-abbrev'. But that abbrev was added to
>    `text-mode-abbrev-table' instead of message-mode's one. And in
>    `message-mode' only abbrev defined in `text-mode-abbrev-table'
>    expand. Why? Is it a bug?

FWIW, `message.el' sets `local-abbrev-table' to
`text-mode-abbrev-table':

(define-derived-mode message-mode text-mode "Message"
  "Major mode for editing mail and news to be sent.
Like Text Mode but with these additional commands:\\<message-mode-map>
[...]
M-RET    `message-newline-and-reformat' (break the line and reformat)."
  (setq local-abbrev-table text-mode-abbrev-table)
[...]

I don't know if this is good or not, but it has been there since ages:

| 6.202 (zsh 07-Feb-02): (setq local-abbrev-table text-mode-abbrev-table)

Bye, Reiner.
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