Miles Bader wrote:- > > Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in > input methods -- they basically just work out of the box (as long as > your emacs was compiled with the leim support enabled). Just do: > > (set-language-environment "Japanese") > > Then type C-\ (toggle-input-method) and begin typing! > > Newer versions of (stable-release) gnus actually are harder to make work > correctly than older versions, but I have a small set of hacks that I > put in my .gnus file, which make everything work pretty flawlessly.
Hi Miles, Thanks for the reminder, but I had tried that (and forgotten about it) because I found it so frustrating. It doesn't accept "standard" input methods - to type in "Nihongo" I habitually type a double n like so:- nihonngo which is the way kanna and everything else I've used accept it, in addition to accepting the single n. Emacs insists on a single n. Then trying to undo mistakes gets even more frustrating - it seems to remember single keystrokes that have no representation onscreen when you backspace, and only appear when you type the next character. I found it a constant battle to use, whereas canna is just very smooth. Also, Emacs's dictionary seems very limited - nihongo is not recognised as a word, but gets split as Nihon and hiragana go! I may be using it wrongly, of course. Neil.