Re: Input method or help feature needed

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 2/18/11 2:24 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>      I think it already is easy.  In the buffer with the Turkish text, do
>
>        M-x set-input-method RET turkish-postfix RET
>
>      and then
>
> It is inconvenient to select an input method just to look at the
> documentation.  I was not sure what input method to consider.
> And I did not know that the description would be this detailed.

You don't have to: C-h I (aka M-x describe-input-method) provides completion.

If you know the language of the text you're trying to enter, it probably has
an input method.  So e.g. `C-h I turk ?' makes it easy to complete turkish-
postfix, and Bob's your uncle.

> I started paging through the output of list-input-methods and
> eventually found what I wanted under Latin-5.  But that is not a
> convenient interface.

Yes, and who can remember what languages each numbered ISO-8859/Latin character
set is for?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA