From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TeX input method Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:26:49 +0200 Message-ID: <85d597ql3a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <858xjxzgfs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851wppzemy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160033272 28752 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 07:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 09:27:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVNdw-0003L3-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:27:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVNdw-0008OI-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVNdi-0008OD-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVNdh-0008Nt-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVNdg-0008Nn-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GVNkI-0003MF-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GVNdf-0005c1-Vd; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D7EEF1C460D5; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:26:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu\, 05 Oct 2006 14\:30\:44 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60421 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: >> So, the only question is whether Stefan's change is worth >> breaking backward compatiblity or not. > > Why not have "tex-discreet" and "tex-pedantic" input methods, the latter > being the current input method, and the former being Stefan's slightly > modified version. The name "tex" could be an alias for one of those > (which one I don't know, but I tend towards the former). > > [I agree with Stefan that the tex input method is a convenient thing to > turn on for getting random weird characters, and that I'd prefer that it > be unintrusive more than it be strictly the same as tex in all those > weird corner cases.] Well, I have to agree with Stefan that the sequences starting with { seem somewhat pointless for an input encoding. But ~ is a different beast. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum