From: Gregory Chamberlain <greg@cosine.blue>
To: Alex <bybor@yandex.ru>
Cc: ~chambln/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht
Subject: Re: How to Pronounce Any English Word
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:06:45 +0100
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I had been a Vim user for quite some time before trying Emacs, but I
avoided evil-mode and the like because I wanted to learn Emacs "the
Emacs way."  I wanted to give standard Emacs key bindings a fair chance.

Modal editing has its advantages but, after the initial learning curve,
I=E2=80=99ve come to appreciate the Emacs way.

By the way, I had an idea about inputting IPA symbols that could be used
with editors like Vim and Kakoune.  What if we had a program that reads
from standard input and writes to standard output, doing exactly what
the =E2=80=98ipa=E2=80=99 input method does in Emacs.  It may even be possi=
ble with a
simple sed program.

    #!/usr/bin/sed -f
    s/3/=CA=92/g
    s/I/=C9=AA/g
    s/U/=CA=8A/g
    s/th/=CE=B8/g
    s/dh/=C3=B0/g
    s/sh/=CA=83/g
    s/tsh/=CA=A7/g
    ...

Vim is able to pipe part of the buffer through an external command using
the =E2=80=98!=E2=80=99 command.  Kakoune can do the same with the =E2=80=
=98|=E2=80=99 command.  The
Emacs equivalent is C-u M-| (=E2=80=98shell-command-on-region=E2=80=99).

What do you think?