Re: (un)expand-region-abbrevs

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

   >> 
   >> שלום -->     שָלֹם 
   >> 
   >> So sometimes I want to delete the niqqud. 

   > You can delete the niqqud characters by hand, you know.

I am not sure what you mean by hand, deleting individually?

Or something like this.
;; incomplete!

(defun my-anti-niqqud ()
  (interactive)
  (query-replace-regexp "ֿ\\|ֱ\\|ֲ\\|ֳ\\|״\\|ְ\\|ּ\\| ֻ\\|ֹ\\|ֶ\\|ֵ\\|ִ\\|ַ\\|ָ\\|ׂ\\|ׁ\\|ׇ\\|ׄ\\|ׅ" ""))

   > (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.)

This you can ask for any abbrev: "why don't  you type it at will?"

I think in both cases the answer should be: "Because I am lazy" 

   >> One might argue that I would be better off to write a short trans-tab
   >> 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?

You mean another table which is the inverse table?

Maybe the query-replace-regexp is the easiest solution, although I am
not sure about performance and we can forget the issue.