GNU bug report logs - #21828
24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Cc: 21828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lboc.home <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#21828: 24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:11:49 +0200

> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 18:03:52 +0000
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>, 21828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > (This bug was there ever since we rewrote abbrev.c in Lisp 8 years
> > ago.)
> 
> Oh, the beauty of writing tests.
> Is that a sign that this function isn't really used at all and might
> as well be marked as obsolete? :-D

It is not used in Emacs.  But the OP evidently needed it, so making it
obsolete is premature, I think.

Btw, the bug was in define-abbrev, not in copy-abbrev-table.  The
former is even more fundamental for abbrevs, and certainly cannot be
obsoleted.
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