Subject: bug#42611: 26.3; edit-abbrevs lets me type and commit, but doesn't store anywhere and abbrevs don't work

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:08:50 +0100

Brett Randall <[email-masked]> writes:

>  1 emacs -Q
>  2 M-x edit-abbrevs
>  3 Scroll to last line - (global-abbrev-table)
>  4 Append: "dfn" 0 "definition"
>  5 C-c C-c (removes "modified" flag)
>  6 C-x k
>  7 M-x edit-abbrevs
>  8 Scroll down to last line - abbreviation is not there

Thanks.

The format of that buffer is very specific, though.  The entries must be
on the format:

(global-abbrev-table)

"def"	       0    "definition"

with one blank line between the name of the section and the start of the
definitions; neither more nor less.  If you do it that way, does the
mode work for you?

In any case, I don't quite see why it's that strict about the format: It
should just grok all the lines between the sections, I think?

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