Re: Using punctuation in abbrev

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I want to substitute $-> with a unicode rightwards arrow (U+2192  →).
>
> 1. Does that mean that you want to type `$->' and use `expand-abbrev'
> each time to insert a Unicode right arrow?  If so, and if you don't
> really care whether you use abbrev, consider binding insertion of a
> right arrow char to a key sequence instead.

The abbrev minor mode is active in all my buffers and it doesn't have
to be triggered by a specific key, it's automatically substituted as I
type. I plan on having a lot of easy-to-remember abbreviations for
unicode chars I regularly use, all prefixed by $ or some other less
used character so that it only triggers when I want. Calling
insert-char is too cumbersome and breaks the flow.

The only thing that doesn't work is this word extraction regex...

> 2. On the other hand, if you already have lots of `$->' occurrences in
> your text and you want to change them to right arrows, consider using
> `query-replace' or `replace-string' instead.

That is not what I want.