Re: Characterset for Abbrevation names limited

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote (on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 at 15:53 -0400):

>     > and/or include a similar comment into the function description.
>     > Otherwise an uninformed user might use the unsupported characters like 
>     > [!"#%&/] and register the failure of the function and
>     > interpret it as a bug.
> 
> I suggest making that function give an error if the abbrev contains
> invalid characters.
> 
> Would you like to do that?

I'm going on holiday for a couple of weeks, I can look at it when I
return. Someone else might wish to do it before then.

(This is about define-global-abbrev, continued from bug-gnu-emacs).