Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <86abs9juh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> > In article <E1IQ3Hl-0008FI-LE@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> >
>>> I think this might need a way to have several Quail methods active at
once.
> >
>>> You may be right.  Handa-san, can you implement that easily?
> >
> > Activating multiple input methods itself won't be that
> > difficult, but there are many subtle matters to be solved.
> >
> > What kind of user interface should be provided for
> > activating and deactivating multiple input methods?
> > What to do for C-h C-\?
> > What to show in the modeline?
> > etc.

> I think that we should distinguish between user-visible
> language-related input methods, and the quail mechanism being
> available to minor modes internally.

> The relation is similar between major and minor buffer modes: while
> you usually don't have more than one major mode active, minor modes
> are on _top_ of that, and often multiple such modes make sense.

I'm not sure it is good to associate input methods with a
minor mode.  We may have to have stacked input methods, and
turn on and off them at once.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org