>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler(a)easy-emacs.de&gt; writes: > > Hi all, > > XEmacs capability to handle multi-word abbrevs is a > nice feature. It's used for natural language Could you please explain what you mean by multi-word abbrevs.

I think some weeks ago we discussed how the abbrevs flyspell is using could be modified such that one would have abbrevs separated for each language. As it turns out you can do it using minor modes, save for mail mode, where you have use indirect buffers and a different language mayor mode. Is this the feature you are referring to or is it something different? > translations, as you might know. With German however a > difficulty shows up, as upcased words not only occur at > the beginning but throughout the text. This use needs > the case as defined, respecting mixed lower- and > uppercased abbrevs and expansions likewise. > > > > AFAIS case-handling in abbrev.c for now don't foresee > that use. > > Relevant part maybe from line 369 > > if (uccount && !lccount) I strongly support such a request, to deal with cases in abbrev is one what I miss most in abbrevs. Uwe Brauer