From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: itrans input methods and motion keys
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 15:09:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r133j1kc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r13350lx.fsf_-_@gmx.net> (James Thomas's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:53:54 +0530")
[சனி ஜூலை 02, 2022] James Thomas wrote:
> Visuwesh wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure what it does. I also cannot read
>> Malayalam at all so I cannot try to figure it out by trial and error (I
>> can at least read Devanagari a bit). Can you explain what it does?
>
> From the docstring:
>
>> DETERMINISTIC non-nil means the first candidate of translation is
>> selected automatically without allowing users to select another
>> translation for a key.
>
> So if we've concluded that there is only one valid candidate for
> translation of the current input (upto the last key), there would be no
> harm is setting it. SIMPLE simply controls one of the keyboard
> mechanisms for selecting any such alternative candidates. Someone who
> uses Devanagari should probably test it and weigh in, though.
>
Hmm, so SIMPLE disables the translation-keymap and DETERMINISTIC selects
the first candidate? I wonder why they are mutually exclusive in the
first place... Thanks for the explanation.
> In any case I'd like to throw in a patch for a similar change to
> malayalam-mozhi, which I've tested. :)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> index 23204c0cd3..d8cc94c676 100644
> --- a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> +++ b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation
> (quail-define-package "malayalam-mozhi" "Malayalam" "MlmMI" t
> "Malayalam transliteration by Mozhi method."
> nil nil t nil nil nil t nil
> - #'indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation)
> + #'indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation nil t)
>
> (maphash
> (lambda (key val)
>
>
> --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-02 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-28 10:36 itrans input methods and motion keys Visuwesh
2022-06-28 18:44 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-06-29 12:14 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-02 5:35 ` itrans input methods and motion keys, " James Thomas
2022-07-02 5:50 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-02 9:23 ` [PATCH] " James Thomas
2022-07-02 9:39 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-07-02 9:39 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-03 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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