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OT w/ misunderstanding Re: creating a sub-menu


From: ken
Subject: OT w/ misunderstanding Re: creating a sub-menu
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:36:09 -0500
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Joost,

For some reason your replies (from the outset of this conversation) aren't showing up as part of one and the same thread.

On 03/06/2013 03:55 PM Joost Kremers wrote:
ken wrote:
Thanks for your response, Joost.  But I already have an easier way than
that to change the input method, one which takes just two mouse
clicks... and then another two mouse clicks to return to my normal input
method.

That's too much. It's also the wrong input medium. ;-) Toggling the
input method can be done with `C-\', which IMHO is much much easier and
quicker than using the mouse.

Thanks, Joost. I have used that in the past. It's okay if I'm using just two input methods, switching back and forth between them. What if, though, I'm using three or four input methods? And if I need to enter the '༣' character or the '§' or '¾' or 'ज्ञ' characters, how do I know which input method I need to invoke? So it would be much easier to list such characters in a menu which shows their corresponding key invocations so I can use them also.

More importantly, the way that "I already have" is built into my Linux system. I don't have to do anything for it to be there, because it's already there. It's not something I need to do any kind of development on. This already-existing functionality, called SCIM, also allows me to change to any one of 40 or 70 other input methods... and probably more in future as development on it continues. And scim works for *all* apps on the entire system-- any and all web browsers, email apps, terminal windows, other editors I might use, including audio and video editors, etc., etc.--, not simply emacs.

So whether the emacs way is better or easier than scim is a moot point. SCIM is already installed and working and quite useful.


  But I want a way so that all I need do is "C-xaa" to get 'ä'--
so I can type this and other characters without breaking the flow of my
typing.

This IMO is even easier than using SCIM and is what I'm trying to figure out how to code. Often I need to type just a single character. In such cases, switching input methods (regardless how it's done) is too much.



Don't know if that helps, though...


Thanks for responding, but no, none of that was at all helpful. I still want to create the sub-menu I originally described (the partial code for which no longer exists in this thread) and so still would like assistance formulating that code. It would appear though that no one here knows how that would be done... or perhaps they're currently busy doing other things. Getting *some* kind of reply is often better than dead silence, so conceivably yours were better than all the others I got.




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