From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disemvowelment Mode? Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 21:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="146354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Grant Rettke Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 05:45:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hQONk-000by3-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2019 05:45:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQONj-0007fi-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 23:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQONW-0007fO-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 23:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQMJV-0006a8-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 21:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:53323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQMJU-00064N-8e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 21:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x4E1WgPY032718; Mon, 13 May 2019 21:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2F9DB66227; Mon, 13 May 2019 21:32:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Grant Rettke's message of "Mon, 13 May 2019 19:48:26 -0500") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.9 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 3 Rules triggered QMR_NHP=0.9, EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6545=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6545> : inlines <7076> : streams <1821456> : uri <2844212> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120355 Archived-At: >> 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