From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Greg Minshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tweaking quail input methods Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:36:47 +0300 Message-ID: <11413.1506260207@minshall-apollo.minshall.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506260270 18053 195.159.176.226 (24 Sep 2017 13:37:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 13:37:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 24 15:37:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dw76N-00043t-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:37:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dw76S-0002ao-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dw75p-0002aX-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dw75m-0002As-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.pair.com ([209.68.5.15]:59346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dw75m-00027s-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from minshall-entroware-apollo.cliq.com (unknown [95.14.119.252]) by relay01.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D71D01083 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:36:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from minshall-apollo.minshall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minshall-entroware-apollo.cliq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5210B6C01AE for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:36:47 +0300 (+03) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:36:00 -0500." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 25.1.91 Content-ID: <11412.1506260207.1@minshall-apollo.minshall.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.68.5.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218741 Archived-At: hi. my question is similar to Stefan's (of many months ago), at least in being related to re-using quail. i would like to add an Azerbaijani Cyrillic input method. 95% of this method is the same as, e.g., "russian-computer". is there an obvious way to "subclass" an existing method? i notice (in leim/quail/cyrillic.el), for example, that "russian-computer" doesn't "subclass" "russian-typewriter" (though they share much). i could do something like cyrillic.el does for "cyrillic-jcuken", i.e., capture the entire "russian-computer" under a new name, then use quail-active-hook (suggested by K. Handa) to add some modifications. when ever "azerbaijani-cyrillic" is activated. but, that seems a bit convoluted (but, maybe is what i should do?). cheers, Greg