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Re: Abbrev should preserve case
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Abbrev should preserve case |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:25:08 -0400 |
Agreed. But it has since been (ab)used for things like skeletons in
programming modes where typing "case SPC" would expand to
case in
*) ;;
esac
for those kinds of uses, the capitalization footwork of abbrev.el is
rather harmful.
In practice, how is it harmful? You would get undesirable results if
you enter `CASE' or `Case', but that problem is easy to avoid: enter
`case' instead.
Re: Abbrev should preserve case, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/21