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: PATCH to add euro symbol to French-{postfix, alt-postfix, prefix} input methods Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:00:14 +0100 Message-ID: <85ir06tx9d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1203936672.22517.5.camel@Argo.Styx> <87k5ktuf7d.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mypo5x1e.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1204070698.4334.39.camel@Argo.Styx> <878x14lw94.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ejawam2n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <8563w6vipk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y792u0fy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204376448 2766 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 13:00:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nick.steeves@uleth.ca, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 14:01:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JVRKs-0002dy-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVRKK-0000rC-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVRKC-0000qT-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVRKA-0000pV-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVRKA-0000pL-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVRKA-0002eB-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JVRK2-0006L9-BO; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 56ADA1C1E254; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:00:13 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:54:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90984 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nick.steeves@uleth.ca, miles@gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:51:29 +0100 >> >> > I can think of one reason to have them. While one is using >> > latin-x-* input methods, he can think that he never type a >> > character not included in latin-x. In other word, if he >> > wants to type a character not supproted by latin-x-* input >> > methods, he must expect that his file can't be saved by >> > latin-x. >> >> So he does when using cut&paste, or quite a few other means of producing >> characters. > > That's true, but it doesn't make the problem easier. The point was that input methods may not be the best place to tackle this problem (which does not happen to be a problem for me, but that's a different question). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum