Re: non word abbrevs

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> In the mean time, you might be able to implement
> a `post-self-insert-hook` which runs expands your abbrevs.
> You could start with something like:
>
>     (add-hook 'post-self-insert-hook #'my-expand-arrow-abbrevs)
>     (defun my-expand-arrow-abbrevs ()
>       (if (memq (char-before) '(?= ?< ?-))
>           (expand-abbrev)))

Isn't it faster to type something, e.g. "leftarr" or
something, anyway? I mean, compared with typing "<-" ...

But I get it one would like it configurable anyway, and not
a bug.

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