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changeset 59946:e966a5990649
(Expanding Abbrevs): Clarify.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:03:40 +0000 |
| parents | e568af229081 |
| children | 801aa21b27e9 |
| files | man/abbrevs.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/abbrevs.texi Sun Feb 06 11:02:29 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/abbrevs.texi Sun Feb 06 11:03:40 2005 +0000 @@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ (@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 character to expand it. +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 outer otter}; @samp{Foo} into @samp{Find outer otter}, and @samp{FOO} into @samp{FIND OUTER OTTER} or @samp{Find Outer Otter} according to the -variable @code{abbrev-all-caps} (a non-@code{nil} value chooses the first -of the two expansions). +variable @code{abbrev-all-caps} (setting it non-@code{nil} specifies +@samp{FIND OUTER OTTER}}. These commands are used to control abbrev expansion: