From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (un)expand-region-abbrevs
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:10:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834mzy3wgn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvjip05t.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es>
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:45:02 +0200
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >>
> >> שלום --> שָלֹם
> >>
> >> So sometimes I want to delete the niqqud.
>
> > You can delete the niqqud characters by hand, you know.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by hand, deleting individually?
Yes, with DEL. They are just characters.
> > (I actually wonder why you need the abbrevs at all. Why not just use
> > an input method that allows to type the niqqud characters at will.)
>
> This you can ask for any abbrev: "why don't you type it at will?"
>
> I think in both cases the answer should be: "Because I am lazy"
Abbrevs are about less typing. How does typing "שלום" instead of
"שָלֹם" "abbreviate" anything, when it's more typing?
> >> 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.
>
> > You can always _add_ those reverse abbrevs, right?
>
> You mean another table which is the inverse table?
No, I meant have them in the same table.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 15:10 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 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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 ` (un)expand-region-abbrevs Andreas Röhler
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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