>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Miller
<jmiller(a)smart.net> writes:
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
>> was this a deliberate or accidental changes?
sb> Deliberate. mail-abbrevs no longer installs itself on load (as per
sb> Lisp package coding standards we've been starting to enforce). To
sb> initialize the keymaps, you need to call `mail-abbrev-init-keys':
sb> (mail-abbrev-init-keys mail-mode-map)
sb> (mail-abbrev-init-keys message-mode-map)
Jeff> hmm, this is gonna get ugly.
Yup. A peek at mail-abbrev.el only reveals installation instructions
for Emacs 18. And even those instructions are broken.
It's horrible that comments in mail-abbrevs.el now gives the user no
clue how to `activate' the package, except a hint that loading it will
work (which it does not).
Jeff> first time abbrevs gets loaded for me is when I try to create my first
Jeff> email to send. Probably the same for message-mode.
Jeff> that means, either i add something onto a mail-mode-hook or
Jeff> message-mode-hook. hmm, should it be a lambda or a wrapper .......
Martin