From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51836 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Abbrev table Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:12:37 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <84wuhhl7wa.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <8465p2ofvn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051362918 20944 80.91.224.249 (26 Apr 2003 13:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M379@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Apr 26 15:15:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 199PWO-0005RU-00 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:15:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 199PWJ-00038K-00; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 08:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 199PWA-00038C-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 08:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 61637 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2003 13:15:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 61632 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2003 13:15:01 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2003 13:15:01 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 199PcJ-0007hC-00 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:21:23 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e40f.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1051363283 29386 217.225.228.15 (26 Apr 2003 13:21:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Apr 2003 13:21:23 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OLctTV17DWLzbjT03Fmpk77ee98= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51836 Steve Youngs writes: > Seems to be RMS who thinks message-mode should use text-mode abbrevs. > I've emailed him to find out what he was smoking that day. :-) Ah, I think it's this: there is no inheritance mechanism for abbrev tables. But abbrevs used in text mode are useful in all kinds of text, including email. And when you introduce a new abbrevs table for message mode then all the text mode abbrevs are gone. So the right solution is to implement inheritance for abbrev tables. And the best workaround is to just use one abbrev table. That was the argument, IIRC. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)