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Re: Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Preventing accidental prefix match in input-method |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:51:58 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I'd like to setup an input method where I have a mapping
>>
>> \b => β
>>
>> but where I'd like it that when the user enters `\beta`
>> the result is `\beta` rather than `βeta`.
>>
>> I know I can do it by adding mappings
>>
>> \ba => \ba
>> \bb => \bb
>> \bc => \bc
>> \bd => \bd
>> \be => \be
>> ...
>>
>> but that would blow up my input method by a factor 50.
>> Is there a better solution?
>
> Would adding a mapping from `βeta` to `\beta` work?
I didn't mean that only `\beta` stays untouched, sorry.
`\big` should also stay as `\big` rather than be turned into `βig`, and
same for all other `\b<something>` where <something> is made up of
alphabetic characters.
IOW I'd like to be able to say something like "\b is rewritten to β but
only if immediately followed by a word boundary".
Stefan