From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: duplicate input methods: german-postfix and german-alt-postfix Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:28 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197286385 17277 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 11:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 12:33:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1gss-0002fN-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:33:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1gsb-0006l2-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1gsW-0006iQ-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1gsU-0006fg-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1gsU-0006fO-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1gsT-0002uj-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lBABWdBY022063; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:39 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lBABWdWA003286; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:39 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lBABWSHd005198; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:28 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J1gs8-0007ij-63; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:28 +0900 In-reply-to: (message from Reiner Steib on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:27:13 +0100) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84951 Archived-At: In article , Reiner Steib writes: > Hi, > the input methods german-postfix and german-alt-postfix are completely > identical, AFAICS. > I think it's confusing. I'd suggest to either remove > german-alt-postfix (keep it as comment it in leim/quail/latin-alt.el?) > or add "identical to german-postfix" in the documentation of > german-alt-postfix. > BTW, my impression is that `latin-alt.el' was derived from > `latin-post.el' and modifications to most languages (input methods) > were changed, but german wasn't. Is this historically correct? Just > curious... I've found many other input methods (e.g. danish-postfix vs danish-alt-postfix) are the same. They have been there since latin-atl.el was committed by Richard about 10 years ago. I have no idea why the same maps were introduced in that file. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp