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Re: How do you write input methods?
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Filipp Gunbin |
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Re: How do you write input methods? |
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Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:47:54 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (darwin) |
On 02/09/2021 09:23 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
>> Cc: andremegafone@gmail.com, perry@piermont.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:33:51 +0300
>>
>> > Out of curiosity: why do you need something like that? what's the use
>> > case?
>>
>> It's because our LDAP server at work is a bit messy, attributes like
>> "cn" and "displayname" sometimes contain first then last name, sometimes
>> vice versa, sometimes in Russian, sometimes in English. I use email
>> expansion in message-mode:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (eval-after-load 'message
>> (lambda ()
>> (define-key message-mode-map (kbd "C-c TAB") #'eudc-expand-inline)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I want to type first letters of surname in English, press C-c TAB and
>> get email autocompleted. But the only "stable", predictable attribute
>> seems to be "sn", which is unfortunately in Russian. So I do:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (eudc-protocol-set 'eudc-inline-query-format '((sn) (email)) 'ldap)
>> (advice-add #'eudc-ldap-simple-query-internal
>> :filter-args #'fg-dotemacs-ldap-advice)
>>
>> (defun fg-dotemacs-ldap-advice (args)
>> (cons (mapcar (lambda (attr)
>> (if (and (eq (car attr) 'sn)
>> (stringp (cdr attr))
>> (seq-every-p (lambda (c)
>> (eq (aref char-script-table c)
>> 'latin))
>> (cdr attr)))
>> (cons (car attr)
>> (fg-dotemacs-translit (cdr attr)
>> "cyrillic-translit"))
>> attr))
>> (car args))
>> (cdr args)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> As ugly as it is, but it works.
>
> So what you need is to apply the cyrillic-translit input method, just
> not in an interactive context, is that true?
Yes, right.