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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)



  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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