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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:20:08 +0300
From: Alex <bybor@yandex.ru>
To: "Gregory Chamberlain" <greg@cosine.blue>
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Subject: Re: How to Pronounce Any English Word
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Thank you, Greg,

It's a nice read! I liked your take on Kakoune and I'm in the process of reading your recent post devoted to Emacs.

It looks like you don't use Vi keybindings in Emacs (Evil mode?). I'd like to ask why, but you could have covered it in that article.

Thanks

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021, at 22:20, Gregory Chamberlain wrote:
> Alex <bybor@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > Could you tell how do you input IPA phonetic symbols in your posts?  I
> > used a vim plugin for this some time ago, I wonder if there is
> > something simpler/better?
> 
> Thanks for writing in!
> 
> At the time, I did not have an elegant way to input IPA symbols.  I was
> mostly copy-pasting from Wiktionary, which was cumbersome.  Recently I
> discovered Emacs has an input method for IPA -- several, in fact!  I've
> now posted an article I was working on which goes into more detail on
> this.[1]
> 
> > Also, what's your current text editor?
> 
> Usually Emacs.  If I'm doing sysadmin type work in a terminal or on a
> remote machine then I use tend to use whatever /bin/vi happens to be,
> but I'm equally happy using Vim, Neovim or Kakoune.
> 
> For some advanced editing tasks, Kakoune is really the only tool for the
> job because of its multiple selections and other powerful features.  Vis
> (not a typo) may be equally capable, but I haven't taken the time to
> learn it.
> 
> Greg.
> 
> [1]: https://cosine.blue/vanilla-emacs.html
>