From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: andremegafone@gmail.com, tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no,
52245@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:26:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o85rw7ma.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6hbqvta.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:01 +0100)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: andremegafone@gmail.com, tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no,
> 52245@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:01 +0100
>
> Eli> The use case that I have in mind is this: even if the user customized
> Eli> the list of input methods to include more than just one, there could
> Eli> be situations where the user needs to use just one input method when
> Eli> typing. In such situations, it would be good to have a way of
> Eli> toggling, like we do now, instead of cycling through all the other
> Eli> methods.
>
> Eli> Any reasonable solution to this use case would be welcome. I'm
> Eli> working with systems which allow you to do something like that, and it
> Eli> frequently annoys me to have to cycle through all the keyboard layouts
> Eli> I defined, just to be able to toggle between US English and some other
> Eli> language. So I wish that Emacs didn't have such an annoying problem,
> Eli> if possible.
>
> Hmm, so how about:
>
> - default-input-method is an atom
> ⇒ C-\ behaves as a toggle
>
> - default-input method is a list
> ⇒ C-\ cycles through them and back to nil
> ⇒ C-\ with a prefix arg behaves as today, prompting
> for an input method. C-\ again deactivates the input method
Sounds good, but I don't understand how you will pull out the trick in
the last sentence. How will Emacs know to "just deactivate" instead
of cycling?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-08 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-02 15:30 bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods Tor Kringeland
2021-12-02 15:49 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-02 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:42 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-07 15:57 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-07 16:30 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-07 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-08 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-08 13:44 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-08 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 14:51 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-11 14:31 ` John Ankarström
2021-12-11 20:07 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-23 18:02 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-23 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 18:45 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-07 15:51 ` André A. Gomes
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