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From: squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King)
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Subject: How? A "global" text-mode abbrev table?
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Date: 28 Oct 90 02:45:17 GMT
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An abbrev mode question:

I have some mode-specific abbrev tables eg.
  (tex-mode-abbrev-table)
  (mail-mode-abbrev-table)
  ...

When tex mode is called, first the text-mode hook is called, then the
tex-mode hook.  This seems to be the right behavior.  I would like
abbrevs to work the same way,
  Eg. when I'm in TeX mode, my effective abbrev table is the
*concatenation* of

    (text-mode-abbrev-table)
with
    (tex-mode-abbrev-table)



What is the right way to do this?  One unaesthetic and probably
dangerous way would be to have the text-mode hook
   Store away the global-abbrev table somewhere;
   Setq global-abbrev-table to text-mode-abbrev-table
   Set local-abbrev-table to tex-mode-abbrev-table

Is there a better, less dangerous way?



		Jonathan  squash@math.ufl.edu