Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watmsg!gjditchfield
From: gjditchfield@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Useful addition to mail-mode
Message-ID: <23589@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 89 21:37:42 GMT
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Might I suggest the following?  Set up a mail-mode-abbrev-table.  Move
aliases out of your .mailrc into the abbrev table.  Turf the .mailrc.  Put
this in your init file:

(defun mail-hook ()
  (setq local-abbrev-table mail-mode-abbrev-table)
  (abbrev-mode 0)
  )
(setq mail-mode-hook 'mail-hook)

Expand abbreviations using C-x ' before sending the letter.