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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Half-baked Ideas, New Projects
Message-ID: <3586@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 6 Mar 89 01:41:24 GMT
References: <10642@well.UUCP> <15381@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <15381@cup.portal.com>, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
>      Well, why not implement a form of speed-writing within a word-processor?
> you could have a dictionary of short forms of words similar to speed-writing
> abbreviations which would be then parsed out...

The 'vi' editor on UNIX already does this. Type ':abbr csa comp.sys.amiga'
Then when you type 'csa ' You get 'comp.sys.amiga '. Any whitespace keys it
off...
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Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
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