From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (un)expand-region-abbrevs
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:21:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5391CE85.5080401@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iooefc39.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es>
On 06.06.2014 14:37, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > Uwe Brauer writes:
> >> I find expand-region-abbrevs quite useful, so would it be possible
> >> to have the inverse function? Unexpand-region-abbrev?
>
> > I don't see why you believe there would be an inverse. Suppose I have
> > abbrevs
>
> > u -> Uwe
> > b -> Brauer
> > ub -> Uwe Brauer
>
> No, no, the case I have in mind is very different. I have a huge abbrev list
> which expands hebrew words to hebrew words with niqqud, like
>
> שלום --> שָלֹם
>
> So sometimes I want to delete the niqqud.
>
> One might argue that I would be better off to write a short trans-tab
> which replaces the niqqud by "nothing", but I got curious whether I
> could use an inverse abbrev function.
>
>
>
>
Quite easy would be unexpand-abbrev-before-point, resp. after-point.
Which would look up in the abbrev-table and do a simple replace.
With region a multi-word expansion has to be considered.
See code of current edit-abbrevs how to start.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-06 9:18 (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
2014-06-06 11:09 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Andreas Röhler
2014-06-06 11:15 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-06-06 11:54 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Andreas Röhler
2014-06-06 12:37 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
2014-06-06 14:21 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 14:45 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
2014-06-06 15:10 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 16:33 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
2014-06-06 17:19 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Stefan Monnier
2014-06-09 15:56 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
2014-06-09 18:59 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 14:21 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2014-06-06 15:31 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 13:16 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 13:53 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Uwe Brauer
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