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changeset 73471:87edd732a03a
(Expanding Abbrevs): Expansion happens only when Abbrev mode is enabled.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:13:10 +0000 |
| parents | 4a2a0193261a |
| children | 9f4660d881f8 |
| files | man/abbrevs.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/abbrevs.texi Sun Oct 22 23:03:09 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/abbrevs.texi Mon Oct 23 05:13:10 2006 +0000 @@ -146,12 +146,13 @@ @node Expanding Abbrevs @section Controlling Abbrev Expansion - An abbrev expands whenever it is present in the buffer just before -point and you type a self-inserting whitespace or punctuation character -(@key{SPC}, comma, etc.@:). More precisely, any character that is not a -word constituent expands an abbrev, and any word-constituent character -can be part of an abbrev. The most common way to use an abbrev is to -insert it and then insert a punctuation or whitespace character to expand it. + When Abbrev mode is enabled, an abbrev expands whenever it is +present in the buffer just before point and you type a self-inserting +whitespace or punctuation character (@key{SPC}, comma, etc.@:). More +precisely, any character that is not a word constituent expands an +abbrev, and any word-constituent character can be part of an abbrev. +The most common way to use an abbrev is to insert it and then insert a +punctuation or whitespace character to expand it. @vindex abbrev-all-caps Abbrev expansion preserves case; thus, @samp{foo} expands into @samp{find