From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: "K. Handa" <handa@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:29:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efbbh710.fsf@md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvefbbu51d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:40:17 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> I'd like to setup an input method where I have a mapping
>
> \b => β
>
> but where I'd like it that when the user enters `\beta`
> the result is `\beta` rather than `βeta`.
>
> I know I can do it by adding mappings
>
> \ba => \ba
> \bb => \bb
> \bc => \bc
> \bd => \bd
> \be => \be
> ...
>
> but that would blow up my input method by a factor 50.
> Is there a better solution?
Would adding a mapping from `βeta` to `\beta` work?
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-23 16:40 Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method Stefan Monnier
2018-11-23 20:29 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2018-11-23 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-23 22:47 ` Joost Kremers
2018-11-23 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-17 3:51 ` Amin Bandali
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