Re: Avoiding selection in quail

[Douglas Lewan]

On 06/29/2019 02:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:36:57 -0400
> >
> > I'd like to add "|N" --> "ℕ" (among a few others) to latin-1-prefix:
> >
> > (with-temp-buffer
> >     (set-input-method 'latin-1-prefix)
> >     ...
> >     (quail-defrule "|N" "̱ℕ")
> >     ...))
> >
> > When I type "|N" quail gives me a list to choose from.
> What kind of "list" is that?  Please show what you see in the echo
> area after typing | and after typing N that follows.
>
> Also, it could be that the other rules you added are relevant, so
> please show them all.
>
> In general, if Emacs shows several possible sequences, it means what
> you typed is ambiguous and can be the beginning of more than one full
> sequence.
Here's what I see in the echo area:
    |N     (01/01) 1.̱ 2.ℕ
(Well, that's my rendition. I couldn't figure out how to capture the 
echo area. A corresponding image is attached.)

On 06/29/2019 02:33 PM, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:50 AM Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> >     (quail-defrule "|N" "̱ℕ")
> >
> > When I type "|N" quail gives me a list to choose from.
> Your translation string consists of two characters, the first being
> U+0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW, the second U+2115 DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL
> N. quail-defrule’s docstring says each character becomes a translation
> candidate.
This sounds good and pointed me in the right direction. I shouldn't have 
been using strings as targets of quail rules; I should have been using 
characters (and I do now). That explains the ambiguity that Eli mentions.
Touching an input method is not something you do very often, so I'm not 
surprised I forgot a detail. Things look good now.
Thanks to both of you for the help.

--
,Doug

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