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: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:29:42 +0200 Message-ID: <86abs9juh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com> <1b151690708262146r56a80a4i2fb5bf3e07177bb8@mail.gmail.com> <854pikajwb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188462608 30981 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2007 08:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: blais@furius.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 30 10:30:04 2007 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 1IQfPV-0001qZ-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQfPU-0001UP-T4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQfPP-0001To-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQfPO-0001TZ-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQfPN-0001TW-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IQfPM-0002cp-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10795 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:29:41 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 14488 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2007 08:29:42 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Aug 2007 08:29:42 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9F1398FA33; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:29:42 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu\, 30 Aug 2007 17\:12\:40 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:77408 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: > In article , Richard Stallman writes: > >> I think this might need a way to have several Quail methods active at >> once. > >> You may be right. Handa-san, can you implement that easily? > > Activating multiple input methods itself won't be that > difficult, but there are many subtle matters to be solved. > > What kind of user interface should be provided for > activating and deactivating multiple input methods? > What to do for C-h C-\? > What to show in the modeline? > etc. I think that we should distinguish between user-visible language-related input methods, and the quail mechanism being available to minor modes internally. The relation is similar between major and minor buffer modes: while you usually don't have more than one major mode active, minor modes are on _top_ of that, and often multiple such modes make sense. -- David Kastrup