From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Passing user selection to a command
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:19:54 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 12:32 AM, Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
> >
> > On Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at 11:01 PM, Bruno Barbier brubar.cs@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > > How can I pass the user selection to 'activate-input-method' ?
> > > >
> > > > (defun glossus ()
> > > >
> > > > (interactive
> > > > (list
> > > > (let ( (cseq '("italian-alt-postfix" "italian-keyboard"
> > > > "italian-postfix")) )
> > > > (completing-read
> > > > " Glossus: " cseq nil t "italian-postfix"))))
> > > >
> > > > (setq ispell-local-dictionary "it_IT")
> > > > (activate-input-method "italian-postfix") )
> > >
> > > IIUC, you could do this:
> > >
> > > (defun my-glossus (user-sel) ;; <==== var name here
> > > (interactive
> > > (list
> > > (let ( (cseq '("italian-alt-postfix" "italian-keyboard"
> > > "italian-postfix")) )
> > > (completing-read
> > > " Glossus: " cseq nil t "italian-postfix"))))
> > >
> > > (setq ispell-local-dictionary "it_IT")
> > > (activate-input-method user-sel))
> > >
> > > Bruno
> >
> > The documentation states that if some other input method is already active,
> > it is to be turned off first. How can I make the function do this ?
>
>
> The documentation of `activate-input-method' ? | If INPUT-METHOD is nil, deactivate any current input method. IIUB (if I understand better ;-) ), as I'm reading it, it says that` activate-input-method' will take care to turn previous methods OFF.
> You don't have to do anything.
>
> Bruno
The documentation for activate-input-method says
"If some other input method is already active, turn it off first."
It is not very clear whether the user should turn it off, or whether the
activate-input-method function will turn INPUT-METHOD off automatically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-19 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-19 10:01 Passing user selection to a command Heime
2024-03-19 11:01 ` Bruno Barbier
2024-03-19 12:21 ` Heime
2024-03-19 12:32 ` Bruno Barbier
2024-03-19 14:19 ` Heime [this message]
2024-03-19 15:56 ` Bruno Barbier
2024-03-19 16:26 ` Heime
2024-03-19 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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