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bug#30331: Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insert
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#30331: Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insertion well |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 10:45:12 +0200 |
> From: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:31:05 -0600
>
> I would really like convenient access to ligatures in my word processing
> software. Unfortunately, none of the
> major text editing applications appears to handle ligatures intelligently:
> Each of Emacs, Vim, Nano, MS Word,
> Google Drive, Libre Office, and InDesign type a dumb "ae" when the user
> presses the a and e keyboard keys,
> whereas historically this sequence is typically rendered with the ash æ rune.
I don't see how any text-based application could do that
automatically, since there are many cases where "ae" needs to be left
as literal 2 characters. Just a few random examples:
maestro
Rafael
(Joan) Baez
I think the right thing would be to have a special key sequence for
inserting ligatures, since the need for that is somewhat rare,
certainly more rare than the need to insert the characters literally.