Re: Disemvowelment Mode?

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, May 14 2019, Grant Rettke wrote:
> When I am typing, most of the time I can keep up and more or 
> less apply the simple rules I am trying to follow. The problem 
> is when I get distracted (or tired, or the speaker goes to fast 
> and I can't keep up) and I just start typing word-for-word. In 
> those cases, I don't want to have to go back over the document 
> to clean it up. That is why I was thinking about the mode 
> "looking back at the last two words or so" to do the right thing 
> to them.

The thing that I still don't understand, is why you would want to 
convert the document to shorthand at all? Isn't the purpose in the 
end to have a legible written version of the talk? Why would it 
matter when some of the words are written in full?

> Having talked through this now, there is certainly a case for 
> not
> doing this in a mode  -_-  :).

Well, in any case you'd need to write a function that can 
disemvowel a word. You can call this function manually (or wrap it 
in another function that runs over a region/the buffer), or you 
could run it in an (idle) timer or something similar. If you use a 
timer, there's no reason AFAICT to *not* create a minor mode for 
it.



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Joost Kremers
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