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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disemvowelment Mode?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:23:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2929n1k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvimuecgz4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 13 May 2019 15:08:37 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:08:37 -0400
> 
> I don't touch type and never have gotten anywhere close to dictation, so
> I'm probably not the best to give you ideas, but I just wanted to point
> out that I don't understand why you'd find it desirable for the software
> to remove the vowels that you did type.  From what I understand the
> purpose is to speed up typing, so you want to reduce the amount of
> typing that takes place rather than the amount of chars that get written
> in the file, so a "Disemvowelment Mode" seems like it operates at the
> wrong place.

If you switch to a language whose writing system is of the "abjad"
variety, you get your "disemvowelment" for free.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-13  6:56 Disemvowelment Mode? Grant Rettke
2019-05-13 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-13 19:23   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-14  0:49     ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  0:48   ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  1:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-14  3:54       ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  4:17         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-15 19:03           ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  8:01     ` Joost Kremers
2019-05-14 10:59       ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-15 19:12       ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-15 21:41         ` Joost Kremers
2019-05-14 11:57   ` Emanuel Berg

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