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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:55:39 +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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I used this plugin https://github.com/dahu/vim-ipa for something, and it=
 was pretty handy. But it has a dependency on a base library from the sa=
me author, so I wanted to find something lighter than that. But it was a=
 pretty smooth experience and I really like the approach. Gonna use it a=
gain.

As for piping input/output, I'm on Windows, which probably complicates t=
hings.

Emacs for me is like changing a keyboard layout to Dvorak or Colemak - t=
otally worth it, but there are so much things to spend time on, at least=
 sometimes. But it's good to know what else is there. :)

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, at 17:06, Gregory Chamberlain wrote:
> 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 chanc=
e.
>=20
> Modal editing has its advantages but, after the initial learning curve,
> I=E2=80=99ve come to appreciate the Emacs way.
>=20
> By the way, I had an idea about inputting IPA symbols that could be us=
ed
> 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 =
possible with a
> simple sed program.
>=20
>     #!/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
>     ...
>=20
> Vim is able to pipe part of the buffer through an external command usi=
ng
> 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=
).
>=20
> What do you think?
>=20