From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:47:04 +0900 Message-ID: <878w6dw1rb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87wru14onc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <49520.130.55.132.126.1276531995.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87sk4nll00.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276825649 2262 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 01:47:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 03:47:26 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPQfx-00084z-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPQfv-0004RF-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51479 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPQfp-0004Q5-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPQfn-0001KW-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:35369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPQfn-0001KH-H1; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.195.35.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.195.35] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1OPQfh-0005rg-4x; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:47:05 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33C91DF8B; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:47:04 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:01:18 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126118 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > What are SCIM/Anthy and Xlib/XIM? Maybe they are input methods > outside Emacs. I agree they might be difficult. SCIM is kinda the "UI" part of an external IM, and Anthy is the "backend" part, which I think does most of the actual work (looking up in a translation dictionary, applying grammatical heuristics, etc). I think it's possible to use Anthy as a backend for Emacs too, but I've never done this and I'm not sure how; perhaps Emacs should try harder to autodetect such things (there are others as well) and use them if present? That should allow much better quality while maintaining Emacs' nice IM UI (SCIM is usable enough, but can be kind of clunky compared to Emacs). -Miles -- Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Goverment from running amok by hamstringing it.