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I'd like to maintain several distinct abbrevs files for different types of abbreviation expansions.

I have this:

(read-abbrev-file "~/Dropbox/elisp/main-abbrevs-file.abbrev_defs")
(read-abbrev-file "~/Dropbox/elisp/own-separate-abbrevs.abbrev_defs")

But what happens is the all the abbrevs in my other separate abbrevs files get automatically sucked into and added to my main abbrevs file, which I don't want.

I can do (setq save-abbrevs nil)... but this disables other functionality that I want, which is to automatically learn my typos and add them to my main abbrevs file—functionality which seems to require (setq save-abbrevs t).

How can I get it so that Emacs automatically learns new abbrevs from ispell, but still allow me to keep a separate abbrevs file with abbrevs that don't get automatically added to my main abbrevs file?

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Calling a (set (make-local-variable 'abbrev-file-name) 'My-current-abbrev-file) preceding this read-abbrev-file should help.

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  • Like this? (set (make-local-variable 'abbrev-file-name) '("~/Dropbox/elisp/own-ab brevs.abbrev_defs"))
    – incandescentman
    Jun 14, 2015 at 5:56
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    @PeterSalazar Try this: (set (make-local-variable 'abbrev-file-name) (expand-file-name "~/Dropbox/elisp/own-abbrevs.abbrev_defs"))
    – Andreas Röhler
    Jun 14, 2015 at 13:16

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