Thanks Michael. I tested this improved quoting and it worked. Once the abbrev table is defined, jdee will no longer run into problems.

A strange thing is when eval the previous non patched defun, jdee will work. Wonder if "mode" was leaked somewhere.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:36 PM Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > - (define-abbrev-table (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode) nil)
> > + ,(define-abbrev-table (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode) nil)
>
> The code looks correct the way it is, I think?

To me this looks like a regression introduced when converting to lexical
binding. Look at the symbol 'mode': it's implicitly quoted so it can't
refer to the lexical variable and you get the error reported.

The patch unquotes too much however, looks like we want something like

> > - (define-abbrev-table (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name mode) nil)
> > + (define-abbrev-table (derived-mode-abbrev-table-name ',mode) nil)

(does that work?)

Michael.