[comp.emacs] defining an abbrev for "**"

rsnyder@hpesoc1.HP.COM (Rob Snyder) (03/30/88)

I want to define an abbrev "expansion" and hook for the literal "**" (the
comment-start string :-() but can't seem to figure out the right combination of
escape sequences.  I would have thought that this would do it, but apparently
not:

(define-abbrev new-mode-abbrev-table "\\*\\*" "\\*\\*" 'handle-comments)

What am I doing wrong?

Rob Snyder.