Re: How do you write input methods?

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:10:25 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> The elisp manual says:
>
> "How to define input methods is not yet documented in this manual, but here we
> describe how to use them."
>
> Do any documents exist at all on how to define a new input method, or do I
> have to read the code?

I don't know of any such documentation, but at least for relatively
simple input methods it's pretty straightforward to define them.  You
need to use quail-define-package to define the package containing the
input method and quail-define-rules to define translation rules used by
the input method; many examples (of both simple and more complicated
input methods) are in the Emacs lisp/leim/quail directory.  And you need
to use register-input-method to enable invoking the input method via
`C-\'; examples are in the lisp/leim/leim-list.el file.

Steve Berman