Script to auto kern after typing

Hello all !  I am curious is it feasible to create a script that will automatically kern specific letter pairings after typing them?
I've been scouring the forum and found something like it here Scripted custom kerning tables | Peter Kahrel.  
What I would like is to be able to type and whenever one of the 29 letter combinations that need to be kerned occurs the script will auto kern it
Any thoughts or help to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks all in advance!

you can't set specific kern values in character styles
@Peter – there were times you could save specific kern values in character styles.
If I remember it right, it could be done in InDesign CS3 and CS4 (maybe also in CS2).
However in CS5 and above that wouldn't be possible.
Also: Exported IDML files from CS4 and opened with CS5 and CS5.5 lost that value.
See the following German discussion about kerning and character styles here in the InDesign Scripting Forum of hilfdirselbst.ch:
Zeichenformat mit benutzerdefiniertem Kerningwert per Skript anlegen - Adobe InDesign Skriptwerkstatt - HilfDirSelbst.c…
My conclusion:
One can still work around that problem, but it will require scripting of IDMS snippet files (to change some properties of character styles there!) and place that edited snippets in InDesign.
Uwe

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