From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any use cases of `iso-transl-language-list'?
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:40:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmqfy0f7.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r1awm52q.fsf@ntnu.no> (Tor Kringeland's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:40:45 +0100")
Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no> writes:
> This feature seems to have been implemented around 1995, and I would
> guess a lot has changed since then with input methods in Emacs. It does
> no harm, of course, but is there really a use case for this anymore? Is
> it something that could be deprecated (at least for Portuguese, Spanish
> and French, for which I cannot see any real use case with the current
> implementation) in favor of input methods or using the regular `C-x 8'
> map, which for each character only requires one key-stroke more?
Please do not remove this feature. It is useful for typing German and
Esperanto text, at the very least.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-02 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-01 20:40 Any use cases of `iso-transl-language-list'? Tor Kringeland
2021-12-02 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 11:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-02 6:40 ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-12-02 15:14 ` Tor Kringeland
2021-12-02 15:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-02 15:57 ` Tor Kringeland
2021-12-02 15:36 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-03 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
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