Re: Bugs caused by recent use of define-derived-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>     abbrev-tables should be able to inherit from each other.
> 
> It is hard to make inheritance for abbrev-tables a coherent feature.
> The problem is that it isn't obvious what is the right thing to do
> when users define new abbrevs.  If a user defines a new abbrev while
> in Paragraph-Indent Text mode, should it go in the Text mode abbrev
> table or the Paragraph-Indent Text mode abbrev table?  Neither one is
> clearly always right.
> 
> I think the best solution is not to have a different abbrev table for
> Paragraph-Indent Text mode.

The two modes now use the same abbrev-table.

> This issue does not arise for syntax tables because users rarely alter
> them.
> 
> Could you please install that mail-mode patch?

It is installed.


        Stefan