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30.0.50; abbrev mode wrongly capitalizes with mixed capitalized words

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From: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr <at> gmail.com>
To: 63438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63438: 30.0.50; abbrev mode wrongly capitalizes with mixed capitalized words
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 17:18:13 +0300

Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The docstring of define-abbrev describes that abbreviations support a
> property list of options.  One of them is :case-fixed:
>
> ‘:case-fixed’: non-nil means that abbreviations are looked up without
>   case-folding, and the expansion is not capitalized/upcased.
>
> Perhaps we should make the interactive commands set the :case-fixed
> property, if the user wants.
>
> Or to avoid case-folding globally:
>
> (abbrev-table-put global-abbrev-table :case-fixed t)

Thanks, using `:case-fixed t' on the word and/or table solves my issue.

Maybe this options should be better exposed during abbrev creation step,
as you said.

Daniel

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