Re: not quite understanding input methods

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 9/1/21 05:14, Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01 2021, Yuri Khan wrote:
> > My point (which some will find offensive) is that maybe one doesn’t
> > need to implement input methods in Emacs.
> >
> > If you have Compose in Emacs, it works in Emacs. If you have Compose
> > in XKB, it works across your whole desktop.
> Except that for some reason, XKB Compose doesn't work for me in Emacs...
>
> Plus, hitting <AltGr " a> is still one key press more than <" a>. Of course I
> could use an X keyboard layout that has dead keys, but that has its own
> problems.
>
> And, as tomas says, Emacs' input methods are more powerful and much easier to
> adapt.
And again, I find myself on a Mac, where I don't have XKB, and don't 
have AltGr, and it's overall a lot easier to experiment with this stuff 
in Emacs. Emacs also gives me the ability to have the input method give 
me help, which the native Mac input methods I might try (painfully) 
modifying do not.

One of the joys of open source is that people get to pick the mechanism 
for accomplishing something they find most congenial.


Perry