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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Using abbrev mode while editing {La,}TeX?
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:33:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: jthomas@nmsu.EDU

In article <8907311924.AA26177@NMSU.Edu>, jthomas@nmsu writes:
| Presumably Neil understood that the easiest way is to type "z" instead of
| "Z", since the abbreviation replacement is taking the case of the entered
| text.
| 
| So, a better solution is to edit the abbrev entry to look something like:
| 
| 	"Z"  5  "{"   (lambda nil (insert "\\bf Z}"))
| 
| .  Yeah, that's a hack, but .... ::-{)}
| 
| Jim Thomas

or, 26 lines like:

"a" 0 "a" (lambda () (forward-char -1) (insert "{\\bf ") (forward-char 1) (insert "}"))

replacing "a" with "b", etc.  Of course, the *real* way would be to
stick that lambda expression into a function.

And then, instead, why even use abbrev's?  Why not just code them, and
do a global sub later?  I mean, look for all the @A, and replace with
{\bf A}... ?

Maybe that wouldn't handle some other concern?

Curious,
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