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[78.107.221.113]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k26sm329029lfe.172.2021.08.30.13.29.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:29:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <94711961-81b0-dc21-dca0-d92726a7428f@piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:13:25 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::229; envelope-from=andremegafone@gmail.com; helo=mail-lj1-x229.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:273556 Archived-At: "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > Yes, but the point at which the character that's inserted into the > buffer is present is after the Quail input method was invoked by > read_char. Again, I'm finding the stack of things involved in the > input method getting invoked rather difficult to follow, but it feels > like Quail doesn't actually look backwards in the buffer and thus > could care less that I inserted a particular character there. That > said, I don't truly get how all this works yet, there's no > documentation and a heap of twisty code involved. I feel your pain. I tried to understand quail at some point, but it's certainly not trivial. My feeling was also that hardly anyone actually understands it. -- Andr=C3=A9 A. Gomes "Free Thought, Free World"