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24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails

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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#21828: 24.4; copy-abbrev-table fails
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 22:27:01 +0000

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On 7 Nov 2015 6:11 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
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> > 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.

Actually, the OP spotted this while writing tests for abbrev.el.
And the fact that no-one reported this for 8 years is at least a mild
indication that nobody's using it. :-)

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