Impossible to create Talon commands which also are Dragon vocab 'commands'

[stevegeek]

From the discussion in beta in Slack:

if I try to define a command left bracket: "(" it doesn't work,

This is because to Dragon 'left bracket' is the phrase for '('

In a capture this appears as (\left-parenthesis\left bracket.

It doesn't seem to be possible to do this in a talon command, e.g. \(: or \left-parenthesis:

Work around for now is:

• You can delete "left bracket" from your dragon vocab
• You can make a list from python that is ‘(‘: ‘(‘

[lunixbochs]

I'm going to leave this open but provisionally mark it as wontfix for now. Basically the only obvious solution I know is to remove the words from the dragon vocab, which is kind of destructive.

[lunixbochs]

@knausj85 can you give your opinion on this?

[knausj85]

This wasn't something I was looking to do, but it looks we can do it now.

I believe we had some ability to do this before the recent Dragon parsing change, FWIW.

It seems that some things must be overridden using the hyphenated nonsense

new-paragraph: "test"
left-bracket: "test"
mouse-grid: "test"
left-brace: "test"

and with the Dragon parsing change, it looks like we can override things like comma now too

[lunixbochs]

Closing, then, as you should be able to use the left-parenthesis form in .talon (as requested in the original post)