Subject: bug#55579: 29.0.50; Abbrevs not saved on exit anymore

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 14:10:31 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> BTW, I noticed that ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs
>> is visited without font-locking.  Here's the fix:
>
> Won't that make loading abbrevs slower and more expensive?  that file
> is normally not edited interactively, only if the user explicitly
> wants to do so.  So why is font-lock in it important?

`read-abbrev-file' just uses `load' on the file, so the mode cookie
doesn't do anything non-interactively.

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