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minibuffer, input methods
From: |
Martin Steffen |
Subject: |
minibuffer, input methods |
Date: |
29 Oct 2006 21:55:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Hi,
I got the folling question/problem. It has to do
with the following:
I want to type in characters not supported by my keyboard (to be concrete,
German umlauts) but not only that:
I want that this is done also in the mini-buffer.
As far as I have read through the ``theory'' of all it, I
have come so far that
1) I have installed leim in addition to the
plain emacs distrition
2) I can activate some specific input-method, for
instance
M-x set-input-method ->> german-prefix
3) Since point 2) does not lead to the fact that
that method is _inherited_ into the mini-buffer
(and since enable-recursive-minibuffers is
kind of weird and unpractical), I can set
(setq minibuffer-allow-text-properties t)
so that for instance when I do a ``text search''
I can use this input method also when being
prompted for the search string.
--
So far so good, now the problem starts :-) I have written
some home-brew emacs-lisps functions, which prompt
the user for some string, using for instance
(read-string "word: " word));
Now, in the minibuffer, which is opened by read-string,
the input method is not inherited
Now, how can I have that?
I'm grateful for any hints, not only for in relation with the
last question (what's wrong with read-string?) but maybe
I'm in the complete wrong direction anyway?
For instance, I remember in the good old days, there had been
the possiblity to type in umlauts with
C-x 8 " u
or analogously.
I can still type this, but it has not the wanted effect. I see that the
"key" C-x 8 is bound to "iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map" but it doesn't do what I
expect.
Or maybe german-prefix is a wrong choice?
Or maybe a trick could be, to set the input-method globally
for all of emacs, maybe then it gets inherited by all
minibuffers, also for read-string.
Anyway, cheers, Martin
- minibuffer, input methods,
Martin Steffen <=