Re: problems on inline input on Mac

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>]

>>>>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:49:47 +0900, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> said:

>> * Since TSM support corresponds to XIM, it is natural not to change
>>   the buffer contents until the user confirms the text.

> Doesn't XIM have a mode in which it cooperates via some protocol
> with the application so that intermediate (pre-lookup) characters
> during input appear "in" the app (not overlayed), but are still
> converted by XIM?

I think you mean on-the-spot, which is not supported by Emacs
currently.  Anyway, overlay strings are not displayed in an overlaid
fashion, but serialized.  Also, thanks to overlay strings, we don't
have to do anything special about undo.

I'd like to show preedit/unconfirmed text even in a read-only buffer
for the reasons I mentioned in the previous message (the current XIM
implementation behaves like that, and we need that for some keyboard
layouts).

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp