From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:51:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87efbbh710.fsf@md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543009817 5665 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2018 21:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:50:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 22:50:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJL0-0001KH-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:50:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJN6-0003aF-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJMy-0003Zs-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJMt-0008OU-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:52:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47615 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJMt-0008Ld-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:52:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQJKj-0000qB-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:49:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KAusCgZYsJK5svRJrRM6V9i+fT4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231321 Archived-At: >> I'd like to setup an input method where I have a mapping >> >> \b => β >> >> but where I'd like it that when the user enters `\beta` >> the result is `\beta` rather than `βeta`. >> >> I know I can do it by adding mappings >> >> \ba => \ba >> \bb => \bb >> \bc => \bc >> \bd => \bd >> \be => \be >> ... >> >> but that would blow up my input method by a factor 50. >> Is there a better solution? > > Would adding a mapping from `βeta` to `\beta` work? I didn't mean that only `\beta` stays untouched, sorry. `\big` should also stay as `\big` rather than be turned into `βig`, and same for all other `\b` where is made up of alphabetic characters. IOW I'd like to be able to say something like "\b is rewritten to β but only if immediately followed by a word boundary". Stefan