Re: Support for shorthand emoji input

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   juri@linkov.net
> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:14:53 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii [2021-12-02 09:55:23] wrote:
> > A facility to let users specify text replacements to be done
> > on-the-fly as you type.  It should be similar to what the abbrevs do,
> > just extended to handle non word-constituent characters, including
> > punctuation and symbols.  For example, replacing -- with the em-dash
> > character — or 1/2 with ½ or (C) with © or <== with ←.
> 
> FWIW, `abbrev.el` already supports abbrevs with non-word-constituents.
> This support comes with 2 caveats, admittedly:

Yes, I know.  If these caveats could be resolved, we'd have the
feature ready for use.