From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Any use cases of `iso-transl-language-list'? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:33:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83czmfqzwl.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28637"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tor Kringeland Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 07:35:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msfgZ-0007Gf-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57480 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msfgY-0003XR-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msff9-00026R-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:33:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60124 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msff8-000772-9s; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:33:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=4OR23e1tJA17ybZMQZYsTw5Sj6dUPDxM6xZS9x4oCMk=; b=UIc55np+BjE6 z9XANraHpt+H1nHkDGk/+Ho2QFEGyhKeaJ+rgKUJmw5oKeTHACwRfPdIR4vCiSfpD7VJvY7FxD3tf 6GaRX5AIvS6Ej8Ri9UQrpDxLEuSlXeY16w3WG3kSAYg99MDArsHx2R4QD9fBNC6LHngHb84H9AjQh ep445rYbDx2LoRqMc9+d5MifvZIqduDaHNFS3+PSqvz/u8EErm8YKsCX3FyU0sZJelaARlOE+J96V ircWht5jNSuCA/tUm6g0aegpd4Rid4E88hpuz5JN8yNXzp3rpyoFnA+mjJ+Dv6ZCugtnabK7bMYSO O3CkYynPE+88L3W3jnrVkA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3087 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msff5-00070C-DO; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:33:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Tor Kringeland on Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:40:45 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280709 Archived-At: > From: Tor Kringeland > Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:40:45 +0100 > > This feature seems to have been implemented around 1995, and I would > guess a lot has changed since then with input methods in Emacs. It does > no harm, of course, but is there really a use case for this anymore? Is > it something that could be deprecated (at least for Portuguese, Spanish > and French, for which I cannot see any real use case with the current > implementation) in favor of input methods or using the regular `C-x 8' > map, which for each character only requires one key-stroke more? If this does no harm, then what would we gain from deprecating it? Some people might be using that, for whatever reasons, so the risk to break someone's use patterns is there. Are there any gains to justify that? Thanks.