<p>Well, IIUC "just this" requires live transformation of the typed input, a list of replacement rules and a UI to edit that list.</p>

<p>So, why a plugin:</p>

<ol>
<li>because pluggablility is awesome</li>
<li>because it's not that tiny actually</li>
<li>because plugins are fairly cheap, and not very harder to develop than a core feature</li>
</ol>

<p>Maybe I'm misunderstanding the feature though.  Or maybe you're feeling a plugin is a worse version than a core feature, yet I do not.</p>

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