From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Heslin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using quail input methods to translate buffer text. Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:52:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87bqrcrvnq.fsf@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> References: <87k66rlqys.fsf@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> <87y7v5fvp2.fsf@dur.ac.uk> <8764i9caau.fsf@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> <87zmfkhqfm.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87u05shq6q.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ac7hupt2.fsf@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> <87lkqob2fe.fsf@heslin.eclipse.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153943630 16714 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 19:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 21:53:49 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 1G5pRk-00069m-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5pRk-0005Sw-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5pRX-0005SM-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5pRW-0005RZ-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5pRW-0005RK-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G5pT7-0001P1-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G5pRC-00062n-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:52:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 213-152-32-235.dsl.eclipse.net.uk ([213.152.32.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:52:58 +0200 Original-Received: from pj by 213-152-32-235.dsl.eclipse.net.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:52:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-152-32-235.dsl.eclipse.net.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l/+0uWJ5y4T1yqjSRzcNASiyq1Q= 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:57668 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: > Ok, I see. Then, I'll work on emacs-unicode-2 branch to > modify Quail so that such a feature can be more easily > implemented. Just to make sure it is clear: my current quail-conv code does everything I need it to do (which is translating text in polytonic Greek LaTeX encodings which are not supported by any other tools such as GNU recode). I'm not sure whether it would be of real use to anyone to extend this to the more complex interactive input methods. I don't know whether these complex input methods correspond exactly to text as it may be stored in files, which is the case for many of the simple input methods. Before anyone goes to a great deal of trouble to implement this, he or she should make sure that it will be genuinely useful functionality. -- Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)