bug#11650: 24.1.50; "Simple" input methods do not allow selection of alternatives with quail-completions

bug#11650: 24.1.50; "Simple" input methods do not allow selection of alternatives with quail-completions

[Lawrence Mitchell]

emacs -Q

C-u C-\ TeX RET

\"o TAB

Three completions are shown:

Possible completion and corresponding characters are:
 \"o:(1/1) 1.ӧ 2.ȫ 3.ö

Those are:
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS

They all have the relevant mouse-highlight face, but mouse-2 on
any of them does not insert the relevant one in a buffer.

This is an unintended side-effect of this change:

Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date:   Sun Apr 8 22:53:51 2012 -0400

    * leim/quail/latin-ltx.el: Auto-generate some of the entries.
    (latin-ltx--ascii-p): New function.
    (latin-ltx--define-rules): New macro.
    (define-rules): Use it.


Previously, there was a one-to-one mapping between TeX-like names
and inserted characters, with this change, many entries are
one-to-many.  Doubly unfortunately, the most likely candidate is
often not the first option.  I'd suggest reverting that commit.

Lawrence

bug#11650: 24.1.50; "Simple" input methods do not allow selection of alternatives with quail-completions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:

> emacs -Q
>
> C-u C-\ TeX RET
>
> \"o TAB
>
> Three completions are shown:
>
> Possible completion and corresponding characters are:
>  \"o:(1/1) 1.ӧ 2.ȫ 3.ö

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately have gotten no
responses yet.)

I'm unable to reproduce this bug, because if I type

\"o TAB

I just end up with a buffer with an ö character and a TAB inserted.  Are
there any additional steps to see the completions, or has this just
changed a lot in the intervening years and been fixed in a different
way?

> Those are:
> CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
> LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
> LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
>
> They all have the relevant mouse-highlight face, but mouse-2 on
> any of them does not insert the relevant one in a buffer.
>
> This is an unintended side-effect of this change:
>
> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date:   Sun Apr 8 22:53:51 2012 -0400
>
>     * leim/quail/latin-ltx.el: Auto-generate some of the entries.
>     (latin-ltx--ascii-p): New function.
>     (latin-ltx--define-rules): New macro.
>     (define-rules): Use it.


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bug#11650: 24.1.50; "Simple" input methods do not allow selection of alternatives with quail-completions

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 17 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> I'm unable to reproduce this bug, because if I type
>
> \"o TAB
>
> I just end up with a buffer with an ö character and a TAB inserted.

This is probably a dup of 13950 which has been fixed in commit c8cefd6a81.

Andreas.

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bug#11650: 24.1.50; "Simple" input methods do not allow selection of alternatives with quail-completions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Aug 17 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm unable to reproduce this bug, because if I type
>>
>> \"o TAB
>>
>> I just end up with a buffer with an ö character and a TAB inserted.
>
> This is probably a dup of 13950 which has been fixed in commit c8cefd6a81.

Right; closing.

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