[hoary] emacs conflicts with input methods based on XIM

[Shixin Zeng]

After upgrade today, I found this problem was solved, although I still
don't where the source of the evil. :)

On Apr 2, 2005 12:33 AM, Shixin Zeng <shixinzeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found that if I start emacs with 'env LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GBK" emacs',
> it will work fine, the xim input method will be started by
> 'Control+Space' correctly.
> But it I set my locale to UTF8, i.e zh_CN.UTF-8, then the problem arise.
> 
> These days, I was told that a lot of people was suffering from the
> problem. I hope someone could figure out where the problem is.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Mar 29, 2005 5:10 PM, Shixin Zeng <shixinzeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:29:31 -0900, Martin Lüthi <luthi at gi.alaska.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi Shixin
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Martin
> >
> > > Disclaimer: I have no experience with Chinese characters. However here is some
> > > advice:
> > >
> > > Ctrl+Space is the standard way to start a selection in Emacs, so this is
> > > definitevely NOT a bug. Where do you want to change the binding of Ctrl+Space?
> > > If this is for emacs only, you can do it in the .emacs file with something
> > > like
> >
> > I know Ctrl+Space is the standard way to set mark, but this is only
> > true when it was built without XIM support. When XIM support was
> > enabled, the key combination "Ctrl+Space" should be snapped by XIM
> > input methods, not emacs itself, as it did on warty.
> >
> > > (global-set-key [C-SPC]  'my-chinese-input-function)
> >
> > This is useless, because my chinese input method was an external
> > program, rather than an internal function in emacs.
> > I've tried to unset [C-SPC]. then it told me C-SPC is not defined,
> > instead of starting the external input method.
> >
> > > where you replace "my-chinese-input-function" with the function accepting the
> > > input.
> > >
> > > If you are doing the input translation everywhere, you should look for the
> > > X Window Manager key bindings.
> > >
> > I think this is not relative to X Windows Manager key bindings, for my
> > Chinese input methods work very well anywhere else, even at "emacs
> > -nw" as I said in the last mail.
> >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> >
> > Thanks anyway
> >
> > > Best, Martin
> > >
> > > --
> > > Martin Lüthi                 answer at tnoo.net
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> >
> > Shixin Zeng
> >
> 
> --
> Best regards
> 
> Shixin Zeng
> 


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Best regards

Shixin Zeng