Subject: bug#14413: 24.2; message-mode-abbrev-table

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:43:08 -0400

> message-mode uses (has always used, AFAICS) the normal text-mode
> abbrev table:

>   (setq local-abbrev-table text-mode-abbrev-table)

> What's the bug supposed to be?
> That message-mode-abbrev-table exists at all, because message forgets to
> pass an :abbrev argument to define-derived-mode?

The right thing is for message-mode to use message-mode-abbrev-table and
for this abbrev-table to inherit from text-mode-abbrev-table.
In theory, it should happen automatically (assuming we remove the above
offending setq) thanks to define-derived-mode.

        Stefan