From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do you write input methods? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:43:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmtvj5v9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8d1a3c4b-80fd-65c8-70b6-1ab452a52f6a@piermont.com> <83a6kzkvek.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfyrjamd.fsf@gnu.org> <6c543c57-caf5-41ca-7e6e-54694b55aeb0@piermont.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 17:44:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjSD-0008pQ-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:44:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjSB-00066k-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjRN-0005Lg-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjRM-0003es-QZ; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2098 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjRM-00024b-BP; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:43:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6c543c57-caf5-41ca-7e6e-54694b55aeb0@piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273508 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:22:13 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > > Alas, we don't have anyone like that on board. However, adding simple > > input methods, like those where you type a small number of ASCII > > characters to produce a non-ASCII character, is easy enough by looking > > at existing input methods for various Latin languages. It's pretty > > much boilerplate code. > > Can you suggest an input method that follows exactly that pattern as a > model? Any input method defined in latin-post.el or latin-pre.el, for example. If these don't fit your needs for some reason, perhaps you could tell more about what you are trying to do?