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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature needed
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:22:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buomxuwioj0.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mxuw63jf.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (James Cloos's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:35:56 -0400")

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> I just tried out the name »παν語« (cf http://www.pango.org/), and even
> with the japanese input method selected -- which I used to input the go --
> the C-u C-x = output for 語 did not explain how to enter it.

I think this is not reasonable though -- the Japanese input method is
more context-dependent than most, since input is usually done in larger
units than one character, and often this is necessary for correctness.
It seems like it would actually be kind of hard for Emacs to give the
"right" description of how to input a particular character in a
particular context.

OTOH, perhaps some kind of alternative help output for unusual input
methods would be useful (e.g. for Japanese, giving a list of entries in
Emacs' kana-kanji translation dictionary that contain that character,
but ... maybe that would be kinda large...).

-Miles

-- 
Omochiroi!



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-13  8:13 Feature needed Richard Stallman
2010-06-14 15:35 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-14 16:13   ` Davis Herring
2010-06-15  9:35     ` James Cloos
2010-06-15 10:22       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-06-15 12:28         ` Geoff Gole
2010-06-16 10:57           ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-16 14:25             ` Geoff Gole
2010-06-17 10:46               ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-15 12:45         ` James Cloos
2010-06-16  3:22       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-16  6:14         ` Daniel Clemente
2010-06-16 12:01           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-17  4:24           ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-06-17 10:45             ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-16  6:50         ` Miles Bader
2010-06-16 11:43         ` James Cloos
2010-06-18  6:51           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-17  8:01         ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18  1:47           ` Miles Bader
2010-06-18 12:20             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-17  8:01         ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-17  8:49           ` Miles Bader
2010-06-17 19:26             ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18  7:01             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-18  8:37               ` Miles Bader
2010-06-18 23:59       ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-18 23:59       ` Another input method feature needed Richard Stallman
2010-06-19  8:47         ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 11:13           ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-19 14:08             ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 18:16               ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-19 20:48                 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-20  4:08                   ` Kenichi Handa
2010-06-20 21:28                     ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-20 17:01                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-20 21:34                     ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-25 12:08               ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-28 21:19                 ` Juri Linkov
2010-07-01  0:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-02 20:52                     ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-19 23:37           ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-20 21:42             ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-21 12:09               ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-21 12:43                 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-19 15:18         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-19 16:03           ` Miles Bader

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