From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:43:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834o80v4uy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298188139 19846 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 07:48:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 08:48:54 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 1Pr42I-0007xT-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:48:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr42C-0000SB-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34253 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr421-0000R7-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr420-0004zl-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:44640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pr41y-0004zY-FV; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 4B2E04026D; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:48:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1298188113; bh=7cIeLiYvlaq4BSsR7ICH+60cYXCIhDsvyTfRooTQJwM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=OG6JK0R66Tu3b19LENS84DtdhlOumX5W029GqCimt5Kc11uCXZ8yhdIVVpv2EmjVy tC90VPbzdGYRUF0e07a7ogBODQaixgPlqFaGj3fD5USzcT26zzDFZNizrekkpnPYpd MIcPFwNatiQJz19XCR8nuzVTphQ9J/3iYTOHLBRA= Original-Received: from carbon (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF7426003A; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:43:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:29:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2011 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 20 X-Hashcash: 1:30:110220:rms@gnu.org::3Gr+feUqcY+Jq74p:00000YQ8bR X-Hashcash: 1:30:110220:eliz@gnu.org::wP/Jkfq6RDrCJ6e0:0000C65ns X-Hashcash: 1:30:110220:schwab@linux-m68k.org::L5W4xQyB+Mt53VEL:000000000000000000000000000000000000000miZb5 X-Hashcash: 1:30:110220:emacs-devel@gnu.org::koTm27lljShGEmLs:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000CIXOR X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 207.210.242.212 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:136266 Archived-At: >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman writes: RS> We could have a new input method that supports all the characters that RS> can be produced by sequences, if that's considered RS> useful. RS> Since Multi_key has no other meaning, why not unconditionally RS> support these sequences all the time? The input method build in to libX11 will, if Multi_key is associated with any of the physical keys, preempt Emacs; Emacs will only see the results of the compose sequences. Simimarly, at the linux kernel console (at least), the Compose key sequences are all handled by the kernel code; Emacs never sees the Compose key itself. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6