From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37051: 26.2.90; feature request: C-x 8 Prefix Command for letter with macron Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:04:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <97AF4FFE-73AA-47D2-94EB-7C03A0CD4BBC@scratch.space> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="54954"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37051@debbugs.gnu.org To: VanL Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 22 15:06:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i0mn9-000E8E-MT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from rpluim-mac ([149.5.228.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b18sm3652864eju.0.2019.08.22.06.04.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: (VanL's message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:46:59 +1000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165560 Archived-At: >>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:46:59 +1000, VanL said: VanL> Robert Pluim writes: >> Would you consider using the chinese-sisheng input method? VanL> Thanks Robert for the tip on how to make use of chinese-sisheng. = This VanL> input method does exactly what I need in that situation. I am tr= ying to VanL> use Emacs to write email and have lost track of your post this on= e is in VanL> reply to. So, discoverability in the docs for typing with macron= in VanL> Chinese poem titles as presented is what's needed. When I next g= o past VanL> emacs-27 I will definitely try the hawaiin input method. Something like the following, perhaps? Eli, can this still go into emacs-26, given that we=CA=BCre at -rc1? diff --git i/doc/emacs/mule.texi w/doc/emacs/mule.texi index b3e7d218c6..4ed13b8787 100644 --- i/doc/emacs/mule.texi +++ w/doc/emacs/mule.texi @@ -497,6 +497,10 @@ Input Methods do the highlighting in the buffer showing the possible characters, rather than in the echo area. =20 + To enter characters according to the @dfn{p=C4=ABny=C4=ABn} transliterat= ion +method instead, use the @code{chinese-sisheng} input method. This is +a composition based method, where e.g. @kbd{pi1} results in @samp{p=C4=AB}. + In Japanese input methods, first you input a whole word using phonetic spelling; then, after the word is in the buffer, Emacs converts it into one or more characters using a large dictionary. One