Re: poor additions in quail/latin-ltx

[Dave Love]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> See the patch I sent on this list yesterday.

I'm not on the list, but I did the relevant work some time ago.  It
can only DTRT in rather limited circumstances, though.

> Hmmm you seem to be talking about "why the code used a lambda rather than
> a string".  This seems unrelated to tmm.  It should be fixed indeed, but
> I have no time to look into it.

Yes, there are two separate issues.

> The problem with tmm is that it uses the menu entry's first char as "the key
> to hit to select the entry".  But this doesn't work well in case where you
> don't know how to input this char.  We could restrict tmm to only use ASCII
> chars for those things, but it might be inconvenient in some cases.

I thought that's what I said, but I don't think insisting on ASCII
selectors is much of a loss.

> But the change I posted (which basically moves the unicode char to the end
> of the entry's text) works as well and I think putting the char in the
> "short cut key" section makes a lot of sense regardless of the problem
> w.r.t tmm.

It may be more logical, but I think it's significantly easier to use
with the symbols at the left, and it just makes more sense to mkake a
general fix.

> I don't know what you're referring to.  I can't remember Richard rejecting
> the idea of multilingual menus.

That's why the maths-menu code didn't get included.  As far as I
remember, the issue was that it didn't work with Xt menus.