Emacs 27.1 crashes on input method selection

Emacs 27.1 crashes on input method selection

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hi Guix users!

I installed Emacs 27.1. via GNU Guix and I found one action, which
always crashes Emacs in this version, while it did not do that before:

M-x set-input-method RET chinese-py RET

It crashes completely and shows no error, simply goes down. Am I the
only one? Does it happen for anyone else? I am assuming, that this only
happens with the GNU Guix installed version of Emacs, but have not
tested that.

My system is a Trisquel 8 on an X200.

~~~~
$ guix describe --format=channels

(list (channel
        (name 'guix)
        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
        (commit
          "8518a3692cbb9cd96d69c03e9de9ad6fdcfebbee")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))
~~~~

What more info could I provide and how, to find the cause?

Regards,
Zelphir

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Re: Emacs 27.1 crashes on input method selection

[Peng Mei Yu]

Hi Zelphir,

Zelphir Kaltstahl writes:

> I installed Emacs 27.1. via GNU Guix and I found one action, which
> always crashes Emacs in this version, while it did not do that before:
>
> M-x set-input-method RET chinese-py RET
>
> It crashes completely and shows no error, simply goes down. Am I the
> only one? Does it happen for anyone else? I am assuming, that this only
> happens with the GNU Guix installed version of Emacs, but have not
> tested that.
>
> My system is a Trisquel 8 on an X200.

I don't know what is the cause here.  `set-input-method chinese-py` in
Emacs installed via guix works for me on both Guix System and NixOS.

By the way, if you are interested in Chinese input method, I suggest you
try pyim and emacs-rime.  As a native Chinese, I can confidently say
these two packages are far more better than the built-in chinese-py.  No
Chinese emacs user uses chinese-py to input Chinese characters.

https://github.com/tumashu/pyim
https://github.com/DogLooksGood/emacs-rime


--
Peng Mei Yu

Re: Emacs 27.1 crashes on input method selection

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hello Mei Yu,

On 12/21/20 4:57 AM, Peng Mei Yu wrote:
> Hi Zelphir,
>
> Zelphir Kaltstahl writes:
>
>> I installed Emacs 27.1. via GNU Guix and I found one action, which
>> always crashes Emacs in this version, while it did not do that before:
>>
>> M-x set-input-method RET chinese-py RET
>>
>> It crashes completely and shows no error, simply goes down. Am I the
>> only one? Does it happen for anyone else? I am assuming, that this only
>> happens with the GNU Guix installed version of Emacs, but have not
>> tested that.
>>
>> My system is a Trisquel 8 on an X200.
> I don't know what is the cause here.  `set-input-method chinese-py` in
> Emacs installed via guix works for me on both Guix System and NixOS.
>
> By the way, if you are interested in Chinese input method, I suggest you
> try pyim and emacs-rime.  As a native Chinese, I can confidently say
> these two packages are far more better than the built-in chinese-py.  No
> Chinese emacs user uses chinese-py to input Chinese characters.
>
> https://github.com/tumashu/pyim
> https://github.com/DogLooksGood/emacs-rime

Thanks for the advice! I have not tried other input methods in Emacs yet
and always took it as sort of a challenge to having to know the actual
character, to be able to write Chinese in Emacs :D On one hand it puts
the last used characters to the front, but on the other hand it does not
do much more than that. Its simplicity is sometimes a help, but also
often not very helpful.

I will give your suggestions a try later.

谢谢 and 祝好，
Zelphir

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