One of the few things I dislike about Emacs 23 is the new behavior of python-mode. When you type things like def, it expands these into snippets using abbrev-mode. I don’t like this because I have similar functionality by way of yasnippet.
I prefer the yasnippet way because it uses fields in the snippet. The default way prompts you for values in the minibuffer with read-string, which I dislike. It also overrides my preferred behavior, and there’s no option to disable it.
Of course, there’s always a way in Emacs, and it can be removed with this code:
(let (python-mode-abbrev-table) (require 'python))
Which is simple and works, though I dislike it. I prefer to tweak behaviors with eval-after-load, since requires can be slow. Unfortunately, by the time that code executes, the damage is done.
I’ll update if I find a better way to fix it.
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