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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> I used to have some abbrevs in message mode for useful URLs.  For
> example: "ntemacsurl" expands to
> "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html".
>
> But now, message-mode looks at text-mode-abbrev-table.
>
> But the above abbrev isn't so useful in other buffers in text mode.

Will an 'ntemacsurl' abbrev get in the way when editing other text
mode buffers?

> What should I do?

I would personally just stick the abbrevs in the text mode abbrev
table.

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matt