From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: not quite understanding input methods Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:23:57 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <871r686abe.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <231adc63-77f0-037a-365c-28db98f684cf@piermont.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3814"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Emacs developers , "Perry E. Metzger" To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 09:26:48 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 1mLKe0-0000pB-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:26:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53182 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLKdy-0002E6-KJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLKd9-0000c0-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:40787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLKd7-0002yv-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90E84100008; Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:25:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Yuri Khan's message of "Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:44:32 +0700") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.231; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay11.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:273633 Archived-At: >> (quail-define-rules >> ("⎄gl" ?λ) >> ) > > Blunt question: Are you trying to solve this to get a better > understanding of the Emacs input subsystem (in which case please > ignore this), or do you just want something done? Because, if you want > Compose, it’s right there almost out-of-the-box in XKB. Emacs 28 has the input method "Compose" corresponding to XKB's Compose in leim/quail/compose.el, but many useful key sequences in this input method don't work because of the artificial limitation to ASCII-only chars in read_char.