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elisp: Abbrev Table Properties

 
 35.7 Abbrev Table Properties
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 Like abbrevs, abbrev tables have properties, some of which influence the
 way they work.  You can provide them as arguments to
 ‘define-abbrev-table’, and manipulate them with the functions:
 
  -- Function: abbrev-table-put table prop val
      Set the property PROP of abbrev table TABLE to value VAL.
 
  -- Function: abbrev-table-get table prop
      Return the property PROP of abbrev table TABLE, or ‘nil’ if the
      abbrev has no such property.
 
    The following properties have special meaning:
 
 ‘:enable-function’
      This is like the ‘:enable-function’ abbrev property except that it
      applies to all abbrevs in the table.  It is used before even trying
      to find the abbrev before point, so it can dynamically modify the
      abbrev table.
 
 ‘:case-fixed’
      This is like the ‘:case-fixed’ abbrev property except that it
      applies to all abbrevs in the table.
 
 ‘:regexp’
      If non-‘nil’, this property is a regular expression that indicates
      how to extract the name of the abbrev before point, before looking
      it up in the table.  When the regular expression matches before
      point, the abbrev name is expected to be in submatch 1.  If this
      property is ‘nil’, the default is to use ‘backward-word’ and
      ‘forward-word’ to find the name.  This property allows the use of
      abbrevs whose name contains characters of non-word syntax.
 
 ‘:parents’
      This property holds a list of tables from which to inherit other
      abbrevs.
 
 ‘:abbrev-table-modiff’
      This property holds a counter incremented each time a new abbrev is
      added to the table.
 

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