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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: luangruo@yahoo.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Android input methods
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:04:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1p1ebub.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yc5fvd1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:17:14 +0200)

> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-13 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-12 12:58 textconv.c Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 14:05 ` textconv.c Po Lu
2023-02-12 14:32   ` textconv.c Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 15:06     ` textconv.c Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 15:35       ` textconv.c Po Lu
2023-02-12 15:27     ` Android input methods (was: Re: textconv.c) Po Lu
2023-02-12 15:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-13  2:21         ` Android input methods Po Lu
2023-02-13 13:49           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-13 14:37             ` Po Lu
2023-02-13 15:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-13 17:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-14  1:57                 ` Po Lu
2023-02-14 14:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 15:14                     ` Po Lu
2023-02-14 17:01                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-15  2:13                         ` Po Lu
2023-02-12 16:00       ` Android input methods (was: Re: textconv.c) Lynn Winebarger

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