On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:50:16 -0700 (PDT)
bobS <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Terry. The "boot" was a typo on my part; the outline had
> bool. I was trying to use the abbreviation immediately after entering
> it in my outline. But after starting Leo this morning, I noticed that
> "Abbreviations are on" and the abbreviation worked perfectly! Is a
> Leo restart required, or should I have run a command to cause the new
> abbreviation(s) to be recognized?

Currently I think you need to restart Leo, although I wonder if
Settings -> Reload Styles would update the abbreviations without the
restart, as a side effect :-)

Cheers -Terry

> Thanks again.
> BobS
> 
> On Friday, September 19, 2014 7:08:50 PM UTC-5, Terry wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:34:38 -0700 (PDT) 
> > bobS <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >
> > > My expectation, after reading doc, and settings information in 
> > > leoSettings.leo,etc, is that after making sure that i have 
> > > @settings 
> > >    @boot enable-abbreviations = True 
> >
> > It's bool, not boot, short for boolean, although I can see how boot 
> > makes sense too.   
> >
> > >    @data abbreviations 
> > >           stuff;;=stuffing 
> > > 
> > > was that typing stuff;; would result in stuffing appearing where 
> > > stuff;; had been entered. Since this doesn't happen 
> > > in my Leo 4.11a1, please tell me where I'm going wrong. 
> >
> > If boot -> bool doesn't fix it, can you post the top part of the
> > output in the Leo log window, unfortunately most versions of Leo
> > report 4.11 
> >
> > E.g. I get 
> >
> > Leo Log Window 
> > Leo 4.11 final, build 20140919170459, Fri Sep 19 17:04:59 CDT 2014 
> > Git repo info: branch = master, commit = 627f387aaea2 
> > Python 2.7.6, PyQt version 4.8.6 
> > linux2 
> >
> > Cheers -Terry 
> >
> > > Thanks. 
> > > 
> >
> 

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