From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support for shorthand emoji input Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <867dcpee4b.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83k0gptrsk.fsf@gnu.org> <831r2vqw44.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31990"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 05:30:18 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 1mt0DC-00086x-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 05:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42484 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0DA-0006Eg-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0CQ-0005Zj-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=46120 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0CP-0003NY-Qp; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:29 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=LVen2Dck9jEXdjEPE0HbWIHDMfwwdoC9SmdryH/eZn0=; b=mJcUZgdNOKRn P/KEujs9lI5S5ACpEVG5yqATTbiUtpvoeF8BguwW3R7hg9vAzExBv+vQnQnlsgktumajp1l8eiEi1 Cq3tmletBDvKWgR/dIVxvMfmlnvV/xrU2gdNaBZK6vLa/5AX+kveBXVArmh1NI/hbUETKHBGYdPEZ a7uIGhPiFyBCZJ8gU0eQvwGDFpXTrTXtLH2vPkGHbuEwqDCLoWeHMdMR95RiWijvRbfkg/nqKFZMt hBbqpP+1/0mbLL240ZGtl+VDNBIbi0/QNIQHjLwPzU8/2PEFdgJq6jjd4A9q8+zoU5oTk/l+ZsQAd xO2C8lH7ObqqTKgb7cTvyw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0CP-00035F-CJ; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <831r2vqw44.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:55:23 +0200) 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:280805 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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 ←. It sounds useful, but may be hard to implement efficiently. Abbrevs are efficient because it does lookup of a word at the end of that word. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)