Re: TeX input method

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> But ~ is a different beast.
>> 
>> Then what about changing the 
>> 
>>     ~ ->  
>> into
>>     ~~ ->  
>> or
>>     ~ ->  
>>     ~~ -> ~
>> 
>> At least this way, the user will get the usual underlining as well
>> as echo-area feedback so she knows what's going on and the NBSP will
>> be reachable with ~ so the user's expectation that it works like TeX
>> won't be too far off.

> I think I would prefer the second variant.

OK would others object?

> It seems closer to the usual accent behavior.

[ I presume you think of a latin-prefix style input-method ]
Odd, I'd think the opposite: with accents, after hitting the accent key, the
accent char is displayed as is (i.e. after hitting just ~, an underlined ~
would be displayed) and if the following key is not one of the special ones,
the accent stays as a normal char.
The first variant behaves like that.  The second behaves more like the
" -> `` thingy of LaTeX-mode.

I myself prefer the first variant, because it's less intrusive, but if
people prefer the second (which is closer to the current behavior), I can
live it.


        Stefan