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From: Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Abbrev table
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:31:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <microsoft-free.87n0icef2l.fsf@eicq.dnsalias.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84wuhhl7wa.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:12:37 +0200")

|--==> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

  KG> Ah, I think it's this: there is no inheritance mechanism for
  KG> abbrev tables.  But abbrevs used in text mode are useful in all
  KG> kinds of text, including email.  And when you introduce a new
  KG> abbrevs table for message mode then all the text mode abbrevs
  KG> are gone.

Ah, I see.

  KG> So the right solution is to implement inheritance for abbrev
  KG> tables.

A nice little project for somebody's todo list.

  KG> And the best workaround is to just use one abbrev table.

Fair enough.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-27  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-25 10:54 Steve Youngs
2003-04-25 13:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-25 14:43   ` Steve Youngs
2003-04-26 13:12     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27  4:31       ` Steve Youngs [this message]

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