Re: Support for shorthand emoji input

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 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 ←.

It sounds useful, but may be hard to implement efficiently.
Abbrevs are efficient because it does lookup of a word at the end
of that word.

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