From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:48 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com> <1b151690708262146r56a80a4i2fb5bf3e07177bb8@mail.gmail.com> <854pikajwb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86abs9juh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188474445 4985 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2007 11:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: blais@furius.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 30 13:47:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IQiUc-00064z-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:47:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQiUc-0002XY-0b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQiUX-0002X9-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQiUV-0002We-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQiUV-0002Wa-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IQiUM-0007TV-Pf; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l7UBkqjb000897; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:52 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l7UBkqRZ012092; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:52 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l7UBknsX003760; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:49 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IQiU4-0002bJ-VM; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:49 +0900 In-reply-to: <86abs9juh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:29:42 +0200) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77412 Archived-At: In article <86abs9juh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>, David Kastrup writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: > > In article , Richard Stallman 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. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org