multi-word abbrevs cases

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 11:17 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler at easy-emacs.de> 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.


genannt London Bridge

M-x 3 add-mode-abbrev

is called London Bridge

RET

;;;;;;;;;;


expands 

is called London Bridge

into

Genannt London Bridge 


=> First word wrongly abcased.

Grüße

Andreas Röhler
> 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