Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!nmsu.CSNET!jthomas
From: jthomas@nmsu.CSNET
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: abbrev-mode vs (insert "abbrev")
Message-ID: <8709030146.AA29005@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 16:31:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8709030146.AA29005
Posted: Wed Sep  2 16:31:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 07:39:03 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 19

(My apologies, but ...)
A month or so ago I posed the following question.  I have since been off the
list for a while during a move.  If there was an answer, I missed it.  Sorry.

The language modes use forms like:
  (insert "if " (read-string "<boolean-expression>: "))
to build skeleton constructs.  I use abbrev-mode for variable names, but
lose with the above forms because only the last word typed in gets expanded.
For example, I have abbrevs "ss"="StringSize" and "sl"="StringLength", if
I type "ss" for the above read-string, the result is "if StringSize", but
if I type "ss < sl", the result is "if ss < StringLength".

The string added by insert is treated as a single entity by abbrev-mode,
so only the last "word" is examined for expansion.

Am I missing something?  Or how can this be fixed (or is it that there's
no reasonable way)?

Jim Thomas		jthomas@nmsu.CSNET  (formerly JNTCS@UNO.BITNET)