Re: Using punctuation in abbrev

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 02.06.2013 19:00, schrieb Aurélien Aptel:
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Actually, if you call M-x expand-abbrev RET explicitly, you'll see they
> > all work.  What doesn't work for the first two is the "press space after
> > it to cause expansion", because this is only performed right after
> > a word char (hence it works for "$foo" because the last char is a word
> > char).
>
> I see, thanks.
> I've just looked at it: it's done in src/cmds.c:434 so behavior can't
> be changed from Lisp, too bad.

AFAICS the restriction is in abbrev--before-point for example, which fetches 
the abbrev using (backward-word 1).

Don't see a reason why not permit any printable char being part of an abbrev. Replace 
backward-word by (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\r\n\f")
etc.

Andreas