Re: [vile] How to get rid of "input method doesn't support my preedit type"?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:40:18AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> >I know the message "input method doesn't support my preedit type" is
> >essentially harmless but it's still annoying to see it every time I
> >start up xvile.  Is there any way I can tune things to get rid of it?
> 
> That's coming from the x11.c file in this chunk at line 6849:
> 
>     if (found == 0) {
>       fprintf(stderr, "input method doesn't support my preedit type\n");
>       XCloseIM(xim);
>       return;
>     }
> 
> Just removing the fprintf shouldn't break anything.  Without recompiling,
> you could simply redirect stderr to /dev/null, e.g., with a shell script.
> 
OK, thanks, I don't think it's worth the effort of a recompile just at
the moment (I may well be moving sysytems soon anyway).  However I
already have a wrapper script that I use to run xvile so the redirect
to /dev/null should be easy.

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Chris Green (address@hidden)

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."