From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "bengali-probhat" input method don't work as expected (by me)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:49:35 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d3htihc.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsi54e4w.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:12:39 +0530")
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Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
> [செவ்வாய் ஆகஸ்ட் 09, 2022] Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
>
>> I use Dvorak keyboard layout (actually the OS is converting QWERTY keys
>> to Dvorak). All input methods were broken for me.
>>
>> So I've added the following to quail-keyboard-layout-alist:
>>
>> ("dvorak" . " 1!2@3#4$5%6^7&8*9(0)[{]}`~\
>> '\",<.>pPyYfFgGcCrRlL/?=+ aAoOeEuUiIdDhHtTnNsS-_\\| ;:qQjJkKx\
>> XbBmMwWvVzZ ")
>>
>> And set quail-keyboard-layout to Dvorak using quail-set-keyboard-layout.
>>
>> After doing the above, "english-dvorak" works as expected (yeah, that's
>> not a great idea, but just to make sure it works), but still there is
>> no effect on "bengali-probhat" input method. It looks like that it
>> assumes that I'm using QWERTY and converts the keys like that.
>>
>> And by the way, why M-x describe-input-method RET english-dvorak shows
>> nice keyboard while M-x describe-input-method RET bengali-probhat shows
>> just a (translation?) table?
>
> This is because the bengali-probhat input method is not declared as a
> "keyboard layout". The quail translation stuff kicks in only for those
> input methods that have the KBD-TRANSLATE argument non-nil. Does the
> following patch work for you?
>
> diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> index e652f108dd..431d8369c1 100644
> --- a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> +++ b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ "X"
> ;; Probhat Input Method
> (quail-define-package
> "bengali-probhat" "Bengali" "BngPB" t
> - "Probhat keyboard for Bengali/Bangla" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
> + "Probhat keyboard for Bengali/Bangla" nil t nil t t nil nil nil nil nil t)
>
> (quail-define-rules
> ("!" ?!)
>
> You can simply eval the quail-define-package and quail-define-rules
> forms after applying the patch to see the results.
>
Thanks, that works. But how can I do this from my init file? Tracking
master is not an option for me right now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-09 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 14:44 "bengali-probhat" input method don't work as expected (by me) Akib Azmain Turja
2022-08-09 15:42 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-09 17:49 ` Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2022-08-10 7:35 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-10 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-10 12:36 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-12 15:40 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-08-12 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-09 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-10 8:41 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-08-10 12:12 ` Visuwesh
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