From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disemvowelment Mode?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:23:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2929n1k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvimuecgz4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 13 May 2019 15:08:37 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:08:37 -0400
>
> I don't touch type and never have gotten anywhere close to dictation, so
> I'm probably not the best to give you ideas, but 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. From what I understand the
> purpose is to speed up typing, so you want to reduce the amount of
> typing that takes place rather than the amount of chars that get written
> in the file, so a "Disemvowelment Mode" seems like it operates at the
> wrong place.
If you switch to a language whose writing system is of the "abjad"
variety, you get your "disemvowelment" for free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-13 19:23 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 [this message]
2019-05-14 0:49 ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14 0:48 ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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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