Re: [PATCH] Re: itrans input methods and motion keys

[Visuwesh]

[சனி ஜூலை 02, 2022] James Thomas wrote:

> Visuwesh wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure what it does.  I also cannot read
>> Malayalam at all so I cannot try to figure it out by trial and error (I
>> can at least read Devanagari a bit).  Can you explain what it does?
>
> From the docstring:
>
>> DETERMINISTIC non-nil means the first candidate of translation is
>> selected automatically without allowing users to select another
>> translation for a key.
>
> So if we've concluded that there is only one valid candidate for
> translation of the current input (upto the last key), there would be no
> harm is setting it. SIMPLE simply controls one of the keyboard
> mechanisms for selecting any such alternative candidates. Someone who
> uses Devanagari should probably test it and weigh in, though.
>

Hmm, so SIMPLE disables the translation-keymap and DETERMINISTIC selects
the first candidate?  I wonder why they are mutually exclusive in the
first place...  Thanks for the explanation.

> In any case I'd like to throw in a patch for a similar change to
> malayalam-mozhi, which I've tested. :)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> index 23204c0cd3..d8cc94c676 100644
> --- a/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> +++ b/lisp/leim/quail/indian.el
> @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation
>  (quail-define-package "malayalam-mozhi" "Malayalam" "MlmMI" t
>                        "Malayalam transliteration by Mozhi method."
>                        nil nil t nil nil nil t nil
> -                      #'indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation)
> +                      #'indian-mlm-mozhi-update-translation nil t)
>
>  (maphash
>   (lambda (key val)
>
>
> --