Re: did the abbrev mechanism ever expand «two words» to «two different words».

[Stefan Monnier]

> table?". That can't be both two words separated by a space and a
> single word at the same time, ie using
>
> "\\(\\w+ \\w+\\)\\|\\(w+\\)

Note that these regexps will be matched via `re-search-backward` so
\\(w+\\) will typically only match a single character (it stops at the
*rightmost* match).

Another way to go about it is to construct the regexp from the set of
abbrevs using `regexp-opt`.


        Stefan