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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Grant Rettke <grant@wisdomandwonder.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Disemvowelment Mode?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 21:32:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1s11akme.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPE0SPOqzJoEpnZw_-aYODnrQA6FyyiVdOZeTXHZCEJ=HjTJ3g@mail.gmail.com> (Grant Rettke's message of "Mon, 13 May 2019 19:48:26 -0500")

>> 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.
> That is my fault: I didn't share why.
>
> When I am typing, most of the time I can keep up and more or less
> apply the simple rules I am trying to follow.  The problem is when
> I get distracted (or tired, or the speaker goes to fast and I can't
> keep up) and I just start typing word-for-word.

Hmm... so you go faster when you type "word for word" (i.e. when you
type more)?  What's the benefit of only typing the consonants, then?

> In those cases, I don't want to have to go back over the document to
> clean it up.  That is why I was thinking about the mode "looking back
> at the last two words or so" to do the right thing to them.

You can also do that as a separate processing step, rather than doing it
"on the fly", right?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-14  1:32 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
2019-05-14  0:49     ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  0:48   ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  1:32     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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