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In article 1699 Massimo Poesio (poesio@cs.rochester.edu) writes:

| I would like to define an abbrevs table to be used when I edit a LaTeX file
| which contains abbreviations for the most common LaTeX commands - so that,
| for example, I can type "\beSPC" and this gets expanded to "\begin", etc.
| [Some correct stuff deleted]

| (define-abbrev LaTeX-abbrev-table "\be" "\begin" nil)
| "^He"

	`\' is a quote char, so what define-abbrev sees in "^He" as its
     second arg and "^Hegin" as the its third arg (since "\b" == backspace
     == "^H").  To get as actual `\', you must use `\\', which will be
     evalled (passed) as `\' to define-abbrev.  So, what you want is:

	 (define-abbrev LaTeX-abbrev-table "\\be" "\\begin" nil)

	You must make sure that a `\' is recognised as being part of a
     `word' in the LaTeX buffer.  To see what I mean, type \be M-b (or
     whatever backward-word is bound to) in the buffer.  The cursor is
     under the `b' and not the `\', right?  If `\' was part of a word,
     then the cursor would be under it.

	To modify an entry for the current mode, type:

		       (modify-syntax-entry 92 "w")

	92 being ASCII for "\".  Now try, it worked for me!

	Simon. 
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