bug#45693: [two word expansion works, but write-abbrev-file destroys it]

[Robert Pluim]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>> What's your 'abbrev-file-name' set to? Emacs uses 'load' to read it,
>> so it should be a complete pathname, ie "~/.abbrev_defs", or it should
>> be in your 'load-path' somewhere.
>
> Good and bad news. I repeated the test carefully looking around for old
> abbrev.el or .abbrev_defs file.
>
>     1. Good, I can confirm that your patched abbrev.el works in the
>        sense that write-abbrev-file does not destroy the properties of
>        the table.
>
>     2. However I tried to add a local abbrev (or an inverse local
>        abbrev) in the fundamental mode, but I obtain 
>
> obarray-get: Wrong type argument: vectorp, ([## 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] [## 0 
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...]) [2 times]

Could you tell me exactly what you did? I suspect there are more
places that are not aware of the :parents property that need fixing.

> That is maybe the reason I run into difficulties if I want to use
> flyspell's abbrev mode if a correction occurs. 

I donʼt use flyspell. Tell me more and we can look at fixing that as
well.

Robert