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bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:01 +0100 |
>>>>> On Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:11:45 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> If weʼre now saying we want a separate command that cycles through a
>> list of input methods, then we might as well add a separate user
>> option for that list (and then we could add *another* user option
>> called input-method-toggle-or-cycle to indicate which command should
>> be used for C-\)
>>
>> I guess we could also have C-u C-u C-\ mean 'cycle', but thatʼs
>> unergonomic.
Eli> The use case that I have in mind is this: even if the user customized
Eli> the list of input methods to include more than just one, there could
Eli> be situations where the user needs to use just one input method when
Eli> typing. In such situations, it would be good to have a way of
Eli> toggling, like we do now, instead of cycling through all the other
Eli> methods.
Eli> Any reasonable solution to this use case would be welcome. I'm
Eli> working with systems which allow you to do something like that, and it
Eli> frequently annoys me to have to cycle through all the keyboard layouts
Eli> I defined, just to be able to toggle between US English and some other
Eli> language. So I wish that Emacs didn't have such an annoying problem,
Eli> if possible.
Hmm, so how about:
- default-input-method is an atom
⇒ C-\ behaves as a toggle
- default-input method is a list
⇒ C-\ cycles through them and back to nil
⇒ C-\ with a prefix arg behaves as today, prompting
for an input method. C-\ again deactivates the input method
- C-u C-u C-\ just unconditionally deactives the current input method,
regardless of the value of default-input-method. Or would 'any
negative prefix arg' suit better?
I now think having the history automatically be part of the list of
values to cycle through would not be a good idea: that history can get
large, and it can contain duplicates (by default), so trying to reach
the end of your default-input-method list could be annoying.
Robert
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- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Tor Kringeland, 2021/12/02
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Robert Pluim, 2021/12/02
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Robert Pluim, 2021/12/03
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, André A . Gomes, 2021/12/07
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Robert Pluim, 2021/12/07
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/07
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods,
Robert Pluim <=
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/08
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Robert Pluim, 2021/12/08
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/08
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Robert Pluim, 2021/12/08
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, John Ankarström, 2021/12/11
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, André A . Gomes, 2021/12/11
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/23
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/23
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/23
- bug#52245: Wishlist: cycle input methods, André A . Gomes, 2021/12/07