From: Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>
To: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux@laposte.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non word abbrevs
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 16:18:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2297BB1A-8F37-4624-8156-CDA4F48BEC7B@traduction-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v913nr8y.fsf@laposte.net>
>> Maybe expecting to have abbrevs work way was a mistake, but it does not seem possible to have (easy...) arbitrary string expansion in out-of-the-box-emacs without abbrevs.
>>
>> Would there be another more idiomatic way ?
>> I know about assigning key shortcuts to arbitrary string insertion,
>> but that needlessly fills the keymaps with shortcuts that could be put
>> to better use *and* the combination would be longer to enter than a
>> normal abbrev...
>>
>
> You can insert a Unicode character with `insert-char'. This does not
> shorten the typing but at least you can insert any character easily.
Thank you. I am really just interested in having "proper" text expansions like what I have on the OS side. I fail to see the logic of limiting abbrevs to "word characters".
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Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-08 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-31 5:45 non word abbrevs Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-31 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-01 7:57 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-01 10:54 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-01 12:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 12:13 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-01 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-01 13:17 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-01 13:49 ` Leo Butler
2021-11-01 14:03 ` tomas
2021-11-01 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-06 8:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-06 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-07 0:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-07 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-07 3:24 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-07 4:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-08 5:36 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-08 7:18 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2021-11-08 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-07 4:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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