Re: mailabbrev.el, mailalias.el and related package.

[Richard Stallman]

    Would the Emacs maintainers in principle be willing to consider the
    possibility of replacing the current dual mailalias-mailabbrev system
    with one single (very customizable) system.

Yes.  That sounds like a good cleanup.

    I include a copy of a previously posted bug report about bugs that my
    package takes care of.

Can you tell me which of the recent bugs (if any) your package
does NOT fix?  And can you fix them?

How about this--can you fix this too?

Sender: address@hidden
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Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: expanding mail aliases too aggressive (.mailrc)
In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> (Richard
 Stallman's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:23:07 -0700 (MST)")
From: Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>
Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:46:56 +0100

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Does this fix the problem?

[...]

> ***************
> *** 464,469 ****
> --- 469,475 ----
>                             (if (equal value _)
>                                 (set-char-table-range tab key w))))
>                 tab)
> +              (modify-syntax-entry ?@ "w" tab)
>                (setq mail-abbrev-syntax-table tab)))
>   
>            ;; If the character just typed was non-alpha-symbol-syntax,
>

Yes, this fixes the reported problem, but it isn't general enough.

Completing mail abbrevs must only happen for strings after

    ^[tT]o:[:blank:]?
or
    ,[:blank:]

Wondering when my .mailrc entries were transferred to
(define-abbrev-table 'mail-abbrevs '(...)) in  ~/.abbrev_defs; was this
a one time action or does Emacs maintain this list?

Whenever Emacs decides to modify user files in tell the user about it
(through a message dialog the user is considered to confirm) and add a
comment.

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