bug#49214: dabbrev-expand vs. ： vs. :

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> 1. 名：laura@nurdsboro.org
> 2. 名:ralph@nurdsboro.org

The problem here is:

(string-match "^\\sw" "：foo")
0

(string-match "^\\sw" ":foo")
nil

That is, ： is word-constituent.  I'm not sure whether it's reasonable
for dabbrev to use \\sw as the regexp here, but it can be controlled by
setting `dabbrev-abbrev-char-regexp' to something else.

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