Re: master 751789471c: Display pre-edit information from X input methods

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Does this mean we will now display the preedit text from XIM in our
> own windows?  And this is on by default, and the user cannot go back
> to the old behavior (where AFAIU the preedit text was displayed by the
> IM itself)?  Those are all user-visible features, and should be
> documented as such.

Thanks.

> Currently, there doesn't seem to be any user-level documentation, and
> moreover, the lispref documentation stops short of saying how these
> new events are used by Emacs.

Thanks, I'll fix that.

> Also, I believe we should let users go back to previous behavior, and
> I'm not yet sure we should make this behavior change by default.

That was introduced in the commit immediately following this one: the
new X resource `inputStyle' can be used to toggle between the old
behaviour and the new one.

I did document the new resource in both NEWS and the user manual.

I'll turn it off by default.