GNU bug report logs - #49637
abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Charles Millar <millarc <at> verizon.net>

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 08:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Charles Millar <millarc <at> verizon.net>
Cc: 49637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49637: abbrev-suggest does not hint in echo area
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:59:06 +0200
Charles Millar <millarc <at> verizon.net> writes:

>> (setq abbrev-suggest t)
>> (setq abbrev-suggest-hint-threshold 0).
>>
>> My (global-abbrev-table) includes:
>>
>> "foo"           1    "find outer otter"
>>
>> (I checked to make sure that foo expanded to "find outer otter.")
>>
>> When I start to enter "find outer otter," and no matter how many
>> letters I enter, including the entire phrase, there are no suggestions
>> in the echo area.

It'll only give you a suggestion once you've typed the entire phrase --
it doesn't know whether you're going to write something else, after all.

And it seems to work find for be -- after I've typed "find outer otter"
(and a bit more), I get a message saying "You can write ‘find outer
otter’ using the abbrev ‘bar’."  (But you have to let Emacs idle before
getting the message.)

So I'm unable to reproduce this problem in Emacs 28.

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