Re: Character repeation detection

[Joost Kremers]

Tom wrote:
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Here is a quick one that checks for 2 characters in a row.
>> 
>> Are you sure you don't want flyspell-mode and only this. What is your
>> usecase.  Why would you want this?
>
> I want to use it as a hotkey.
>
> It occured to me it's very unusual to type the same character 3
> times in a row. Two can occur in words, but 3 practically never.
>
> Therefore it could be used as a single key hotkey in text buffers
> where otherwise you use the characters to type.

Perhaps check out key-chord-mode:

http://www.emacswiki.org/KeyChord

Similar idea, might contain some ideas you can use.


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