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bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:30:33 +0300 |
> From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
> Cc: visuweshm@gmail.com, 58070@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:56:21 +0530
>
> > There's a problem with the above: in some situations you want deletion
> > by codepoints, in others you want deletion by grapheme clusters. (It
> > is possible that with Tamil the former is rarely the case, but it is
> > definitely a frequent case with other scripts, in particular with
> > those that have diacriticals.) Emacs 29 solves this by having
> > delete-forward-char, which is usually bound to the <Delete> key,
> > delete by grapheme clusters, while DEL (which deletes backward) and
> > C-d delete individual codepoints. The primary motivation for DEL to
> > delete by codepoints is that it allows you to make sub-grapheme
> > corrections to stuff you just typed, for example if you typed an
> > incorrect accent.
> >
> > Emacs 29 also has the composition-break-at-point variable, which you
> > could set non-nil, in which case <Delete> will also work by
> > codepoints.
>
> I see. You're saying that the deletion by grapheme clusters or by
> codepoints may be a matter of preference.
Not preference, but the specific use case.
> In that case, it would be nice to have a variable similar to
> composition-break-at-point that would enable deletion by grapheme
> clusters.
We already do have that: <Delete> does that in Emacs 29.
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, (continued)
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Visuwesh, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Arun Isaac, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Visuwesh, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Visuwesh, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Arun Isaac, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method, Arun Isaac, 2022/09/27
- bug#58070: [PATCH] Add tamil99 input method,
Eli Zaretskii <=
bug#58070: [PATCH 0/1] Add tamil99 input method, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/25