Re: Android input methods

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:17:14 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:37:19 +0800
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > 
> > >> My problem is that modes such as `electric-indent-mode' expect, for
> > >> example, newline characters to be inserted by the return key, and do not
> > >> indent if the change is made directly by the input method.
> > >
> > > is the only problem with such modes?  Or are there other issues?
> > 
> > There are many others: consider the vc-dir buffer: when you type ``mmmm
> > i'', it expects individual key presses, each one of which marks a file
> > or registers it with the VC system.
> 
> These commands don't insert text, so I'm unsure how they are
> relevant.  The "mmm" is not inserted into a buffer, it is a series of
> 3 commands.

Come to think of this, we should simply turn off the input method in
these situations.  Basically, all special-modes don't want input
methods to interfere -- except when those modes prompt the user for
some text.  So I think we need a way for Emacs to turn the input
method on and off as needed.