emacs 23 input method changes

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
    LC> I don't read, and certainly don't type, Chinese.  How do I tell the
    LC> TeX input method:

    LC> To stop accepting input when the character I want appears in the
    LC> mini-buffer?

    Ted> This should be automatic.  If it's not, two or more rules
    Ted> overlap and it may need to be fixed.  Can you specify an
    Ted> example?

I type C-\ and then \'e and I get é- in the minibuffer.  If I type
anything else, I get some oriental character.  For instance, \'ent
gives .$(Qr@.(B (which is a very pretty oriental character in the
emacs23 buffer, but not when I cut and paste it to here in emacs22.

    LC> That in general I'm going to be using two-character sequences for
    LC> Latin alphabets, and not typing Chinese?

Actually, I probably don't want this; I do use TeX input mode for
things like typing \copyright to get ©.

    Ted> I think the TeX input method (as defined in leim/quail/latin-ltx.el)
    Ted> doesn't have any Asian characters. 

Am I supposed to be doing something to have it use latin-ltx instead
of some other language?  The things in my .emacs file contemporary
with having set up the input mode are all about UTF-8:

;utf-8

(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

(setq default-input-method "TeX")


    Ted> Can you give an example?  Look in that file to see the
    Ted> current bindings--maybe that will help. 

There's certainly nothing like those Chinese characters in there, so I
must be getting bindings from somewhere else.

    Ted> Can you also check the actual value of your
    Ted> `default-input-method' to make sure it's correct?

describe-variable default-input-method gives:

default-input-method is a variable defined in `mule-cmds.el'.
Its value is "TeX"

This is in emacs-snapshot Ubuntu 8.04.  The help menu About emacs item says:

GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-03-19 on vernadsky, modified by Debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


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