From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support for shorthand emoji input Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:18:55 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86fsrbmk2w.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <867dcpee4b.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83k0gptrsk.fsf@gnu.org> <831r2vqw44.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 10:52:35 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msilW-00032u-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:52:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40968 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msilV-0002cD-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msij1-0008Vu-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.198]:52375) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msiiz-0001zI-Hb; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 445B4C0009; Thu, 2 Dec 2021 09:49:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <831r2vqw44.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:55:23 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.198; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay6-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280733 Archived-At: >> > It isn't an input method, it's a general-purpose text-replacing >> > facility. We need to add it. >> >> What exactly is the proposed general-purpose text-replacing facility >> that people propose to add? > > A facility to let users specify text replacements to be done > on-the-fly as you type. It should be similar to what the abbrevs do, > just extended to handle non word-constituent characters, including > punctuation and symbols. For example, replacing -- with the em-dash > character — or 1/2 with ½ or (C) with © or <== with ←. I really don't see how this is different from an input method: after 'C-\ compose RET', --- is replaced with the em-dash, 12 with ½, (C) with ©, <- with ←.