Re: emacs problem: M-x write-abbrev-file does not seem to work.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, davidson wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Default User wrote: [snip] dummy@dummy:~$ sudo aptitude show emacs [sudo] password for default: Just FYI, it would greatly surprise me if you actually needed root privileges for aptitude's "show" command. I wager you could get the sam

Re: emacs problem: M-x write-abbrev-file does not seem to work.

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Default User wrote: Hey, been working on this emacs problem all day. It would have taken me all day just to write up such a meticulous account. TLDR; I have never used the "abbrevs" functionality of emacs. So, (fair warning) you will not find a direct answer to your quest