From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:27:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20110220082705.GA4092@tomas> References: <87lj1ew6d3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20110218083736.GA12190@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298189414 24358 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 08:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 09:10:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr4Mq-0007Ir-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr4Mq-0001ZX-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34247 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr4Mk-0001ZQ-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr4Mj-0000rq-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:47719 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr4Mi-0000qP-Rp; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 83C5A9004B; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:27:05 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 217.22.192.104 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136269 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:41:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > > As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers, > > right? >=20 > I'd think of it like a programming language -- it's nominally "English"= , > but of a rather limited and regular sort. Kind of. Still, a non-English speaker is less likely to come up with a construct like "DOTLESS", to keep to the example. > Can you think of any mechanism that both completely avoids naming and > covers the entire unicode space though? You are completely right, that's hard (although this thread is producing surprising ideas already). My reply wasn't meant as an objection to the method proposed. Rather as a reminder: we're not done with that, and we might need a whole bunch of interfaces, complementing each other. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNYNBZBcgs9XrR2kYRAhCTAJ0Xmaivwf+4MJCEHGdtr2tsaNcgqACfQ+MJ RA1Poe+z0ny4EjHQ5/P66/4=3D =3DAU4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----