Re: adding consistent extra symbols to input methods (cyrillic-*, croatian-*, slov*, czech-* etc.) input methods

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> > activate-preposition-input-method -> activate-additional-input-method
> > inactivate-preposition-input-method -> inactivate-additional-input-method
> > local-input-method-list -> current-additional-input-method-list

> Those names seem to have rather different implications though...

> `activate-additional-input-method' makes it sound vaguely like the new
> input method will somehow be "equal" to the existing input method,
> whereas kenichi's name somewhat implies otherwise, that the new input
> method being activated is somehow "special" (and I think also suggests
> that it will be "subsidiary" to any main input method).

> Which of those is true?

My original patch intends that "preposition" input methods
are what handled before the normal input method (as
documented).

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> global-input-method-list -> remove this variable since there is
> no global variant of `current-input-method'.

??? A preposition input method can be activated globally
when recorded in global-input-method-list.  In that case, in
any buffer, when you activate a normal input method, that
preposition input method is also activated automatically.
Isn't it useful?

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden