From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:51:22 -0500 Message-ID: <87tvjc7qv9.fsf@aminb.org> References: <87efbbh710.fsf@md5i.com> <87y39j9zsq.fsf@fastmail.fm> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545018628 24501 195.159.176.226 (17 Dec 2018 03:50:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 03:50:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 04:50:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjvA-0006Bh-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 04:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjxG-0004mk-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:52:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjwQ-0004hl-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjwN-0000X6-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:51:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjwC-0000DO-NM; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:51:25 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe00fc8db93e03-cm00fc8db93e00.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.228.14.66]:54516 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gYjwC-00087r-EU; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:51:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:03:10 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231866 Archived-At: On 2018-11-23 6:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Yes, that's what I do now. Doubling backslash works well in cases where > it's only needed in unusual circumstances. > > But I find it very inconvenient in latex-mode because I very frequently > need to type a normal \. Seconded. Stefan (and others), did you have a chance to think about / look further into this? I=E2=80=99d probably use any workaround, unsightly as it may be= , if it meant I=E2=80=99d get to keep the backslash prefix for the input, instea= d of my changing it to the forwardslash=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s a bit hard to rewir= e years of muscle memory. amin