Re: Swapping default input method: why so complicated?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> (defun my-foo ()
>> (interactive)
>> (setq default-input-method
>> (if (eq default-input-method 'toto) 'titi 'toto)))
>> 
>> but that only affects the default method to use, not the method actually
>> in use.

> YEAH, RIGHT!  ;-)

> This is what I had for a year - and was trying (for a year!) to
> understand - why THIS works only time-to-time. 

> Inspecting the code shows that the actual "default input method" is
> NOT in 'default-input-method, but is a COMPUTED value based on 3
> different stored pieces of information.  Hence my question (and
> working code I posted).

Hmm... I'm not very familiar with the input method code, but the little
bit of it I've used and the documentation seems to agree with my
understanding, so we at least have a doc bug here.


        Stefan