From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:10:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87vd0imotr.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299229894 11689 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 09:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:11:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 10:11:29 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvR2m-0004U5-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:11:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvR2l-0004D5-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51523 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvR2X-0004CD-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:11:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvR2W-0000j7-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvR2W-0000g4-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:11:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvR2P-0004GV-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:11:05 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:11:05 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:11:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:136752 Archived-At: On 2/18/11 2:24 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > I think it already is easy. In the buffer with the Turkish text, do > > M-x set-input-method RET turkish-postfix RET > > and then > > It is inconvenient to select an input method just to look at the > documentation. I was not sure what input method to consider. > And I did not know that the description would be this detailed. You don't have to: C-h I (aka M-x describe-input-method) provides completion. If you know the language of the text you're trying to enter, it probably has an input method. So e.g. `C-h I turk ?' makes it easy to complete turkish- postfix, and Bob's your uncle. > I started paging through the output of list-input-methods and > eventually found what I wanted under Latin-5. But that is not a > convenient interface. Yes, and who can remember what languages each numbered ISO-8859/Latin character set is for? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA