Re: not quite understanding input methods

[André A . Gomes]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> Yes, but the point at which the character that's inserted into the
> buffer is present is after the Quail input method was invoked by
> read_char. Again, I'm finding the stack of things involved in the
> input method getting invoked rather difficult to follow, but it feels
> like Quail doesn't actually look backwards in the buffer and thus
> could care less that I inserted a particular character there. That
> said, I don't truly get how all this works yet, there's no
> documentation and a heap of twisty code involved.

I feel your pain.  I tried to understand quail at some point, but it's
certainly not trivial.  My feeling was also that hardly anyone actually
understands it.


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André A. Gomes
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