Re: Making a key binding work in minibuffer editing.

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 9/2/21 11:45, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 08:43:22 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> > Howdy! So I'm reasonably happy with the (kludgy) way I've handled my ad hoc
> > input method, but it doesn't work inside minibuffers because my magic keypress
> > is handed by a global keymap entry and that doesn't seem to cover the
> > minibuffer:
> >
> > (define-key (current-global-map) (kbd "<f19>")
> >    (lambda (n)
> >      (interactive "p")
> >      (setq unread-input-method-events
> >            (append unread-input-method-events '(?¤)))))
> >
> > Is there a keymap I can add this to which will also cover editing in
> > minibuffers, so I can use my weird input method in isearch and that sort of
> > thing as well?
> I'm don't know about a keymap per se, but maybe this will do:
>
>    read-multilingual-string is a compiled Lisp function in
>    ‘<emacs>/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el’.
>    
>    (read-multilingual-string PROMPT &optional INITIAL-INPUT INPUT-METHOD)
>    

That doesn't help me unfortunately. It's there to read a string from 
lisp code. It doesn't change the key maps that are active when I hit C-s 
or what have you.

Perry