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In article <1992Jun10.183915.22633@colorado.edu> mdb@noaacrd.colorado.edu (Mark Borges) writes:

>   ;;; Abbrev-expansion of mail aliases.
>   ;;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>   ;;; Created: 19 oct 90, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
>   ;;; Modified: 5 apr 92, Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
>   ;;; Last change 22-apr-92. jwz
>
>   The documentation for this package states that it will expand mail
>   aliases by using abbrev-mode expansion when the cursor is in the To:
>   field, for example. Including the following in one's .emacs file:
>
>	(setq mail-setup-hook '(lambda () (require 'mail-abbrevs)))
>
>   will supposedly load the package; it does so for *mail* buffers, but
>   not for the *VM-mail* buffer.
>[stuff deleted]
>   Relevant Versions:
>   GNU Emacs v18.58.  VM5.32(beta)  SunOS4.1.2
>

   After some experimentation, I discovered by adding two more lines
to the mail-setup-hook, the package will be loaded as advertised:

;; Addendum to .vm startup file
(setq mail-setup-hook '(lambda ()
			 (require 'mail-abbrevs)
			 (mail-aliases-setup)
			 (setq local-abbrev-table mail-aliases)))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

mail-aliases-setup appears to create an abbrev-table named
mail-aliases. I believe that vm-mail was trying to use the
text-mode-abbrev-table by default.
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