Re: MingGW: Bug in TeX input-method?, was: Re: Emacs pretest 28.0.90 is out

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:25:29 +0100
> 
> Please consider the abbreviated description of the input method:
> 
>   TeX (mode line indicator:\)
> 
>   LaTeX-like input method for many characters.
>   These characters are from the charsets used by the ‘utf-8’ coding
>   system, including many technical ones.  Examples:
>    \'a -> á  \`{a} -> à
>    \pi -> π  \int -> ∫  ^1 -> ¹
> 
>   KEY SEQUENCE
>   ------------
>   You can input characters by the following key sequences:
>   key char  [type a key sequence to insert the corresponding character]
>   --- ---- ----- ---- ------- ---- 
> ------------------------------------------- ----
>   ...
>   _a  ₐ        \"{W} Ẅ    ^\phi   ᶲ    \multimap                              
>      ⊸
>   _e  ₑ        \"{X} Ẍ    ^{SM}   ℠    \parallel                              
>      ∥
>   _h  ₕ        \"{Y} Ÿ    ^{TM}   ™    \pppprime                              
>      ⁗
>   _i  ᵢ        \"{a} ä    $\div$  ÷    \precnsim                              
>      ⋨
>   _j  ⱼ        \"{e} ë    \'{\O}  Ǿ    \setminus                              
>      ∖
>   _k  ₖ        \"{h} ḧ    \'{\o}  ǿ    \shortmid                              
>      ∣
>   _l  ₗ        \"{i} ï    \={\i}  ī    \spesmilo                              
>      ₷
>   _m  ₘ        \"{o} ö    \Alpha  Α    \sqsubset                              
>      ⊏
>   _n  ₙ        \"{t} ẗ    \Delta  Δ    \sqsupset                              
>      ⊐
>   _o  ₒ        \"{u} ü    \Gamma  Γ    \subseteq                              
>      ⊆
>   _p  ₚ        \"{w} ẅ    \Kappa  Κ    \succnsim                              
>      ⋩
>   _r  ᵣ        \"{x} ẍ    \Koppa  Ϟ    \supseteq                              
>      ⊇
>   _s  ₛ        \"{y} ÿ    \Lamda  Λ    \textbaht                              
>      ฿
>   _t  ₜ        \'\.S Ṥ    \Omega  Ω    \textdied                              
>      ✝
>   _u  ᵤ        \'\.s ṥ    \Sampi  Ϡ    \textlira                              
>      ₤
>   _v  ᵥ        \'\AE Ǽ    \Shima  Ϭ    \textpeso                              
>      ₱
>   _x  ₓ        \'\ae ǽ    \Sigma  Σ    \thicksim                              
>      ∼
>   --- —        \'{A} Á    \Theta  Θ    \triangle                              
>      ▵
>   ...
> 
> It seems to me that the input method is just lacking some
> "descriptions", would you agree?

Which ones are missing?  I'm afraid I'm not following you.

> And can one mitigate this or is there a compulsory reason why, for
> the underscore, b,c,d,f,g,q,w,y,z were left out?

I don't know, sorry.