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Re: Expansion dictionary - How?

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From: Dennis Wisinski
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:00
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In article <1jr3r1INN16h@gap.caltech.edu>  
dlisoski@bluff.galcit.caltech.edu (Derek L. Lisoski) writes:
> I am having trouble getting entries in Edit's expansion
> dictionary to expand...although they do show up ok, both
> in the Edit <command>-E window and in the ~/.editdict
> file. Then I am just supposed to type the abbreviation
> and <Esc> or what?
> If I do that it just beeps at me....
> Thanks for any info
> derek
> dlisoski@cco.caltech.edu

You need to enable "Emacs Key Bindings" in the Global section of  
Preferences to get the escape key to work.

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