From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion? Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:44:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83k4yadi4f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vdhvd096.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC6CC5.3010009@harpegolden.net> <83skczcwes.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC75C3.900@harpegolden.net> <83r5sjctup.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC8F4A.8070205@harpegolden.net> <83my37coyw.fsf@gnu.org> <4AECA148.4090809@harpegolden.net> <83ljircl6s.fsf@gnu.org> <4AECB0E0.3020702@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257047073 17032 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2009 03:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 03:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 04:44:26 2009 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 4.50) id 1N4RMf-0001og-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:44:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4RMe-0005Fz-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4RMY-0005FQ-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4RMT-0005CU-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59874 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4RMT-0005CN-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58518) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4RMS-0005hH-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSE00J00VIR8900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:43:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSE00FS2VPA5UC0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:43:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4AECB0E0.3020702@harpegolden.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:116542 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:49:20 +0000 > From: David De La Harpe Golden > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > - A user with a hebrew os keyboard layout who liked auto-switching could > define that in an ltr context, an emacs input method revpar* should be > switched to. That input method would yield "(" when the os sends ")" to > emacs. A user with a us os keyboard layout who wanted to use the hebrew > emacs input method and also auto-switch could use "hebrew" and > "hebrew-revpar" rtl and ltr input methods. OK, but knowing whether to mirror or not requires information about whether a given keyboard already mirrors characters. Can this be found somewhere, or queried at run time?