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:
Set the property prop of abbrev table table to value val.
Return the property prop of abbrev table table, or nil
if table 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.