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>    The goal of the above example was to make the fortran-mode
>    command turn on abbrev mode automatically.  It's not possible
>    to do this in the obvious way using fortran-mode-hook, because
>    the fortran-mode command actually
>      1) runs the hook, setting abbrev-mode
>      2) changes the buffer's major mode, clearing abbrev-mode.

You don't say what version of Emacs you are using.  From my reading
of the code in version 18.57, those two operations happen in the
other order.  And when I actually try

(setq fortran-mode-hook '(lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))

it works just fine.

(Of course, Emacs shouldn't be dumping core on you, but you don't
have to be doing things the hard way and tickling this bug.)

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium