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From: rsnyder@hpesoc1.HP.COM (Rob Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: defining an abbrev for "**"
Message-ID: <3990005@hpesoc1.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 17:31:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I want to define an abbrev "expansion" and hook for the literal "**" (the
comment-start string :-() but can't seem to figure out the right combination of
escape sequences.  I would have thought that this would do it, but apparently
not:

(define-abbrev new-mode-abbrev-table "\\*\\*" "\\*\\*" 'handle-comments)

What am I doing wrong?

Rob Snyder.