From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: APL mode Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2556707.G5KkrEK5zp@descartes> <2175241.EV4ttzPlpJ@descartes> <52603276.70404@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382850539 5745 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2013 05:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 05:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen?= Sauermann , emacs-devel To: Rustom Mody Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 27 06:09:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VaIb0-0001eA-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 06:09:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VaIaz-0002oV-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VaIap-0002nl-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VaIai-0003om-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:5441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VaIai-0003oi-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:08:44 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/hu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSQuh3AGwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/hu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSQuh3AGwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="36441642" Original-Received: from 75-119-248-110.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.248.110]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 27 Oct 2013 01:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 349BA60424; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:08:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Rustom Mody's message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:08:52 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164579 Archived-At: >>> If there is something fundamentally wrong with this line please let me know >> I'm still wondering why a plain old normal well-supported quail >> input-method is not a good solution. > Obviously I know very little about quail -- so consider this as > thoughts for our comments. > In quail you need (as far as I understand) some kind of 'herald' > character like the '\' for tex input method. I'm not sure what you mean by "herald key". AFAIK the only constraint is that the input keys don't/can't use modifier keys, so you have to use key sequences rather than key chords. While I agree that it might sounds unEmacsish, key-sequences aren't that bad compared to key-chords. Stefan