From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: How to recognize keyboard insertion?
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:57:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vdhvd096.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Do we have infrastructure for detecting, inside one of the functions
that insert text into buffers, characters that were inserted via the
keyboard or keyboard macros?
Failing that, can I safely assume that self-insert-command and its
optimized variant in command_loop_1 are the only ways to insert
characters from keyboard and keyboard macros, and that
self-insert-command is only supposed to be invoked by characters typed
at the keyboard?
I'm asking because, in bidirectional editing, characters that are
mirrored at display time need to be mirrored at keyboard input time.
For example, when typing right-to-left text, the character `)' should
be mirrored so that what ends up in the buffer is `(', because what
the user means is to produce an open parenthesis. (Displaying this
text will then mirror again, and display `)'; this last part already
works in the bidi Emacs I'm working on).
So I need to mirror characters typed at the keyboard, but not
characters yanked from the kill ring or pasted from X selections. How
can I discern the first kind from the second?
TIA
next reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-31 15:57 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-10-31 16:58 ` How to recognize keyboard insertion? David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 17:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 17:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 19:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 21:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:24 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 20:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 5:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 5:44 ` tomas
2009-11-01 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 20:09 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-02 5:03 ` tomas
2009-11-01 1:30 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-01 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 13:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <837huac8gg.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 14:49 ` Ehud Karni
2009-11-02 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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