From: Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 57201@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57201: 29.0.50; Input method doesn't work in Term char mode
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:13:06 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lerq5btp.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60e26653afa56849d33cfe14c9824fee@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (Phil Sainty's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:36:54 +1200")
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Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
>> I don't think so. How can you input characters not on the keyboard
>> in Term char mode then?
>
> It's emulating a terminal. In char mode you can't input *keys* that
> are not on the keyboard of the terminal being emulated. That's the
> point of the emulation -- it's behaving as if you were using a real
> terminal rather than Emacs.
>
> We can switch to line mode when we want to use Emacs features that are
> not supported by the terminal.
>
>
>> And if it's really expected, please add an user option to configure
>> it.
>
> A user option to configure... what?
>
> Do you mean an option which would *allow* using input methods in char
> mode? As above, I don't believe that makes any sense as a concept,
> so I don't see how that could work.
>
> (Perhaps someone else will correct me, though.)
>
Why it doesn't make sense? IMHO the point of char mode is to bypass key
bindings like C-x, C-c, etc. And if one wants to not use any input
method, they can disable it with "C-\".
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-14 8:33 bug#57201: 29.0.50; Input method doesn't work in Term char mode Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-14 12:56 ` Phil Sainty
2022-08-14 15:01 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-14 21:36 ` Phil Sainty
2022-08-15 5:13 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-08-15 7:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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