Re: using custom emacs abbreviations

[Malte Spiess]

Kevin Harriss <special.kevin@gmail.com> writes:

> I am wanting to use a set of custom abbreviation in python-mode for
> emacs.  The layout for my files I have is follows a ~/.emacs,
> ~/.emacs-dir/abbrevs.el, ~/.emacs-dir/recipe-abbrevs.el.  I will post
> the contents of those files below.  When I open a python file with emacs
> it says that it loads recipe-abbrevs.el but when I do M-x list-abbrevs
> it only shows the default abbrevs with python-mode, so my custom abbrevs
> are not being loaded.

I'm not an expert on abbrevs, but I guess this may be your problem:

> [...]
> === ~/.emacs-dir/abbrevs.el ===
> (define-abbrev-table 'text-mode-abbrev-table '(
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You redefine the table for text mode (should be python-mode I guess).

> Thanks,
>
> Kevin

HTH

Malte