* Cosmic: Also in my email today is a link to discussion which brought up
QEmacs + Fabrice Bellard--and what some of you "[OT] Emacs Org-Mode
hackers" may be interested in: a tiny Emacs version called "Mg":

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beagle3 5 days ago:

Related: Fabrice Bellard[0]'s QEmacs. http://bellard.org/qemacs/ - a 160KB
executable provides a mostly complete Emacs experience (sans scripting ..
sort of like Mg), but does include syntax coloring, unicode, and watching
video inside the editor. A 60KB stripped down version has a feature set
comparable to Mg as far as I can tell.
[0] of FFMPEG, QEMU, BPG, TCC, JSLINUX and more fame.
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:47 PM, briangpowell . <briangpowellms@gmail.com>
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> * Something like this may do what you seek (which isn't clear to me):
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> Mx replace-regexp \boc.*\b \bco.*\b
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> ** But why you'd do such a thing is a mystery to me--this may be more
> useful to you:
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> Query Replace
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> M-% string <RET> newstring <RET>
> Replace some occurrences of string with newstring.
> C-M-% regexp <RET> newstring <RET>
> Replace some matches for regexp with newstring.
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> ** Forgive me if you know this already.
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> *** But your question is slightly funny to long time Emacs users like
> myself because Emacs has been built, piece-by-piece, by thousands of
> programmers, to do the most complex editing jobs you can imagine and the
> regular expression library is the fastest in the world for "buffers",
> "windows" and visual incremental search and replace (as I describe above).
> By the way if you have to do search and replace, and you want to do it
> visually, I suggest "QEmacs"--made by the same genius who created Qemu
> (which is what VirtualBox is based on) and he also broke the record for
> calculating the digits of π.  I'm talking about Fabrice Bellard--thank God
> for him!
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> (I recommend QEmacs--just for the fun of it--it has a few amazing
> abilities.)
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> * Finally, from reading your general [OT]/help me plea: I strongly suggest
> you use FlySpell-Mode (in addition to "abbrev" functions that the other
> Emacs hackers suggested).
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe key-chord mode could help with this?
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>>   -k.
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>> Please excuse brevity. Sent from pocket computer with tiny non-haptic
>> feedback keyboard.
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>> > On Mar 28, 2015, at 12:57, "Samuel W. Flint" <swflint@flintfam.org>
>> wrote:
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>> > There's something on endless parentheses that will let you generate a
>> correction abbrev with a keystroke.
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>> > Samuel W. Flint
>> > Please forgive any typos as this was composed on a screen keyboard.
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>> >> On Mar 28, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I make a lot of typing errors (I have an injury to one hand, which
>> impedes bilateral cooperation). In Libreoffice I am able to define wildcard
>> autocorrect objects, e.g.:
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>> >> oc.* ---> co.*
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>> >> This will correct ocrrect, ocmputer, ocndition, etc.  Does anyone know
>> a way to do something similar in Emacs? Right now I am using abbrev mode
>> and defining my errors one by one -- it is a very slow process since I make
>> so many mistakes and have a moderately large vocabulary.
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>> >> I am sure this is possible somehow, I just don't know how.
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>> >> thanks as always,
>> >> m
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