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Article #88060Can't Auto-Save Abbrevs via `C-x s'
From: overton
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 1994 04:25
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 1994 04:25
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In GNU Emacs 19.22.9 of Wed Apr 20 1994 on gargoyle (berkeley-unix) Description ----------- Abbreviations defined in an editing session do not automatically save as described in the info node. Info-node (Abbreviations/Saving Abbrevs), says: Emacs will offer to save abbrevs automatically if you have changed any of them, whenever it offers to save all files (for `C-x s' or `C-x C-c'). This feature can be inhibited by setting the variable `save-abbrevs' to `nil'. Settings -------- I have these settings: (setq abbrev-file-name '"~/emacs/abbreviations") (setq save-abbrevs "t") (quietly-read-abbrev-file "~/emacs/abbreviations") However, neither `C-x s' nor `C-x C-c' offers to save my abbreviation file, along with other buffers. So if I quit without explicitly saving my abbreviations, I lose that session's abbreviations. Example (Keystrokes) -------------------- 1) overton C-x a g mmm 2) C-x s. This prompts to save unsaved buffers, but does not prompt to save `~/emacs/abbreviations'. And sure enough, abbreviations are not saved. (NOTE: Neither does C-x C-c prompt to (or actually) save `~/emacs/abbreviations'.) Is this a known bug? Is there a work-around? I have been using lemacs (with about 1000 abbreviations distributed across different modes), and would like to switch over to gemacs, if there is some solution to this problem. Thanks, -John Overton
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,99a389e80d85a90c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-07 07:52:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sun.cais.com!io.org!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.uchicago.edu!overton From: overton@cs.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Can't Auto-Save Abbrevs via `C-x s' Date: 7 Aug 1994 00:25:31 -0400 Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 46 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9408031745.AA12845@rose.uchicago.edu>