From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>,
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: scripting input methods (was back (batch) translate chars to keyboard events)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:47:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18978.1329148078@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> of "Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:47:42 +0530." <81y5s7w3ix.fsf@gmail.com>
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rustom
>
> Try this:
>
> (defun translate-to-hindi (filename)
> (interactive "fFile to be translated: ")
> (with-temp-buffer
> (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
> (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-input-method "devanagari-itrans" t)
> (execute-kbd-macro
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert-file-contents filename)
> (buffer-string)))
>
> (write-file
> (concat (file-name-sans-extension filename)
> "-hi" (file-name-extension filename t)))))
>
Perfect. I haven't tried to see what happens if you just
input arbitrary junk to it, but it is at least idempotent.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-13 7:20 scripting input methods (was back (batch) translate chars to keyboard events) Rustom Mody
2012-02-13 7:41 ` Rustom Mody
2012-02-13 8:17 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-13 11:06 ` Rustom Mody
2012-02-13 15:47 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-02-13 15:28 ` Nick Dokos
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