From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y6mobviq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911021449.nA2EnkN7007964@beta.mvs.co.il>
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:49:46 +0200
> From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> It seems that both Microsoft and the Xorg developers decided to use
> mirroring for Hebrew keyboard (see /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il).
>
> So if the user uses an external "input method" (i.e. keyboard map)
> the 4 pairs - () [] {} <>, are already mirrored. If she prefers to
> use an Emacs internal input method (like I use with my hebeng.el)
> the mirroring should be an option.
I tend to agree. The automatic mirroring is not 100% correct, but
it's probably right 80% of the time, and the rest could be fixed by
introducing a command to mirror the character at point.
> BTW. The keying of the RTL text and arithmetic expression discussed
> previously on the thread, Typing (from left to right):
> "A B C D ( 4 + 5 ) * 9" results in: 9*)4+5(DCBA
> That is because of parens mirroring (at the keyboard).
Yes, that's exactly one manifestation of why the automatic mirroring
is wrong: it assumes too much about the application which will get
this input.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-31 15:57 How to recognize keyboard insertion? Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 16:58 ` 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 [this message]
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