Re: pabbrev

["Kevin Brubeck Unhammer" <pixiemotion@gmail.com>]

På Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:44:53 +0200, skrev Carsten Dominik  
<dominik@science.uva.nl>:
>
> On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:41, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just discovered pabbrev-mode  
>> (http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord/download/emacs/pabbrev.el),  
>> which seems really great, but in org-mode (5.09) the suggestions don't  
>> show up until i press TAB twice (meaning that if there are several  
>> suggestions, I have to press 0-9 to choose one each time). Does anyone  
>> know of a way to get it to work alright with org-mode? (I understand  
>> that the TAB key is "taken" for view-cycling when in headlines, but I  
>> can't see any good reason why the suggestions shouldn't automatically  
>> show up in org-mode...)
>
> I am curious if you find this useful after a while, Phillip himself
> says that it is more useful for programming than for writing text.
> It works much better for repetitive text than for expressive text.

Well, I use org-mode for taking notes while reading, and for psychology  
texts eg. it's really nice not having to write "suprachiasmatic" out every  
time (plus, in Norwegian, as in German, compound nouns get bunched  
together into one word).

> I *think* you need to add org-self-insert-command and (if you
> use orgtbl-mode) orgtbl-selt-insert-command to the list in
> pabbrev-expand-after-command-list.

Thanks lots, this works great :-)

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