From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:29:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834o80v4uy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298161817 22793 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 00:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 01:30:13 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBk-0005ll-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:30:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqxBj-0007LY-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58698 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqxBZ-0007I3-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBX-0007XM-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBX-0007XI-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBX-0004wo-MB; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:29:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <834o80v4uy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:52:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136250 Archived-At: We could have a new input method that supports all the characters that can be produced by sequences, if that's considered useful. Since Multi_key has no other meaning, why not unconditionally support these sequences all the time? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org