From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org packages requiring external packages
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:12:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfu6j1il0.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zi4ro614.fsf@163.com
>>>>> > ebdb-i18n-chn # needs "pyim"
>>> BTW, I think Emacs comes with 99% of what's needed already (it does
>>> have a pinyin table and looking at pyim-hanzi2pinyin, there doesn't
>>> seem to be much more to it), so maybe we could add to Emacs a function
>>> equivalent to pyim-hanzi2pinyin and get rid of this dependency.
>> I'll take a look and see how close it already is. I'd be happy to add a
>> function to Emacs to do this or, if it's a real no-brainer, just add it
>> to EBDB and remove this dependency (and probably the whole package).
> Maybe we should add a hanzi2pinyin package to elpa, for this
> hanzi->pinyin feature is very important to Chinese Emacs user.
My impression is that it will be simple enough that we could add it to
lisp/language/chinese.el or something like that, but indeed distributing
it via ELPA would make it easier for other packages to start using it,
so we'd have to put it in a separate file.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-30 7:22 elpa.gnu.org packages requiring external packages Glenn Morris
2018-01-30 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-30 14:28 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-01-30 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-31 17:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-01-31 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-01 17:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-02-01 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-03 0:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-02-04 20:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-02-06 19:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-02-02 13:49 ` Feng Shu
2018-02-02 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-01-31 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-30 19:04 ` Glenn Morris
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