From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (un)expand-region-abbrevs Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:21:00 +0300 Message-ID: <8361ke3yr7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fvjipfak.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> <874mzy2ssl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iooefc39.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402064546 22108 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2014 14:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 16:22:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsv28-0008IL-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:22:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsv28-0005iw-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsv1A-0004pP-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsv14-000589-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:57530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wsv14-000585-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N6R009003IZFO00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:17:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N6R009BS3PI7N10@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:17:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87iooefc39.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172393 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:37:30 +0200 >=20 > No, no, the case I have in mind is very different. I have a huge a= bbrev list > which expands hebrew words to hebrew words with niqqud, like=20 >=20 > =D7=A9=D7=9C=D7=95=D7=9D --> =D7=A9=D6=B8=D7=9C=D6=B9=D7=9D= =20 >=20 > So sometimes I want to delete the niqqud.=20 You can delete the niqqud characters by hand, you know. (I actually wonder why you need the abbrevs at all. Why not just use an input method that allows to type the niqqud characters at will.) > One might argue that I would be better off to write a short trans-t= ab > which replaces the niqqud by "nothing", but I got curious whether I > could use an inverse abbrev function. You can always _add_ those reverse abbrevs, right?