On Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019 at 11:02, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've tried using a symlink to the file held in another directory, but > when I restarted emacs the symlink wasn't followed and it created a new > abbrev_def file from somewhere, I don't know where.
This is strange. I have my .abbrev_defs symlinked to elsewhere and it works just fine. I've been doing this for years, probably from emacs v22 onwards (but that's just a guess). To answer your original question, I use version control (e.g. src or git) to manage that file along with other dotfiles. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.3-34-g2eee3c
