Re: About abbrevs and spaces at end of line

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 11.12.2013 13:29, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> > Am 10.12.2013 12:08, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> > > Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> > >
> > > > Am 09.12.2013 22:46, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> > > > > Is there some smooth way to avoid having a space at the end of line
> > > > > when activating an abbrev as the last thing done before newline?
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > The short and long is: Invoking with spc leaves unsightly marks like
> > > > > an underscore if done at the end of a line and invoking with <RET> is
> > > > > not always desirable if a new line is not needed.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > I have visions of some tricky way of setting up an abbrev with hardly
> > > > > any more effort than the normal
> > > > >
> > > > >       M-x edit-abbrevs <RET>
> > > > >
> > > > >       "tru"       0          "\"TRUE\";"
> > > > >
> > > > > In the cperl-table, then pressing C-c
> > > > >
> > > > > Where I only need to edit the cperl abbrev table.
> > > >
> > > > Problem results from binding abbrev-expand to SPACE.
> > > > Abbrev is expanded, than SPACE is inserted, as you typed it.
> > > >
> > > > Solution: abbrev-mode off. Use any other key to M-x expand-abbrev RET.
> > > > This will expand it, but not insert a space.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > After looking into this a bit, I'm not seeing a handy way to set
> > > something else permanently.
> > >
> > > In fact it appears there are nearly half a dozen ways to invoke
> > > expansion.
> > >
> > > space, <RET>, C-x ' (At least two more key combos that I already
> > > forgot)
> > >
> > > So there must be a list or regex or something.
> >
> > Do you mean "list of keys"?
>
> I'm suggesting there must already be a list of keys that invoke
> expansion.
>
> > > I'd like to add some other char to the list somehow.
> >
> > Are you asking how to bind another key onto expand-abbrev command?
>
> You seemed to be suggesting that could be done when you said:

Yes, there is a plenty of unused combos to employ.
For example that one:

(global-set-key [(super \{)] 'expand-abbrev)