>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

   >> So typing 
   >> שלום -->     שָלֹם 


   >> This means typing less gives more.

   > I don't know what the above arrow notation means, nor what it takes to
   > type either side of the arrow, so I don't know why that explains "typing
   > less gives more".

--> means expand.

The issue was that I wrote in Hebrew which is R2L, so maybe that is why
it looks confusing. 

So with latin letters and L2R.

Shlm  --> Shalom

Typing the consonants shlm, expands to the word Shalom, with vowels.

Once I have a text with vowels I might want to delete them (or at least
part of it). For that I could use a replace-regexp or an inverse abbrev
table.


   >> know of would be good old iso-deaccentuate in of pre mule days.[1]
   > [...]
   >> [1]  which still works and makes sense in Xemacs due to a different
   >> implementation of Mule, I presume.

   > FWIW, iso-deaccentuate is still in obsolete/iso-acc.el and still works,
   > at least for ë".

Aha, good to know. Thanks, iso-accents-mode however gives strange
result,
typing 'e gives ĉ even with (iso-accents-customize "spanish")
but anyhow it is obsolete...

Uwe