From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Steffen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minibuffer, input methods Date: 30 Oct 2006 20:57:20 +0100 Organization: IFI UiO Norway Message-ID: References: <4ea8c$45451e3c$49f2612$23481@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162236888 28363 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 19:34:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 20:34:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gechw-0001A2-Ur for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:22:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gechw-00021w-78 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gecdr-0007Xv-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gecdq-0007WM-K7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gecdq-0007W9-BN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gecdq-0001Sf-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GecUR-0005Xt-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.209.8.188.chello.no ([84.209.8.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:08:07 +0100 Original-Received: from msteffen by cm-84.209.8.188.chello.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:08:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.209.8.188.chello.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38421 Archived-At: >>>>> "B" == B T Raven writes: B> "Martin Steffen" wrote in message B> news:mailman.403.1162151752.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... >> >> >> input method also when being prompted for the search string. B> Is the integer that represents a character really a property? I B> don't think that diacriticals are properties even when using non B> pre-composed glyphs. I have this variable left at nil and the B> minibuffer inherits the input method wherever I think it should. I don't exactly know whether it's a property, I only observed that setting the variable seemed to bring me nearer to the solution. B> (read-string "string: " nil nil nil t) B> works for me on 21.3 w32 build. I didn't use german-prefix B> (latin-1-postfix instead) but it should work for any of them. Have a B> look at the read-string function via C-h f. The fourth optional B> argument is INHERIT-INPUT-METHOD. Yep, that did it, great. Thank you. I know that somewhere emacs was prepared to be adapted to what I wanted (I have a new keyboard etc now). Still, emacs rules :-) hilsen, Martin